This is a browsable, Web-based interface to the Greek New Testament (GNT). It has several distinguishing features.
- Unlike packages such as ``Logos'', you don't need to install it: if you are reading this page using any graphical web browser (e.g. Netscape or Internet Explorer), you can browse the GNT.
- You don't need any Greek fonts. The text is rendered as images (GIF files), normally one for each verse. This gives you good-quality text - much better than several widely-used installable fonts - with no effort on your part.
- Subject to the limitations imposed by limited bandwidth, the system is fast. Several levels of cacheing are employed, on both server and client. Consequently, in most circumstances only a few kilobytes of data need to be transferred for each request. The worst case is requesting a complete chapter for the first time (e.g. John 1 is sent as a 110 kbyte data stream), but even this causes only a short delay in most cases. Because of the cacheing, speed tends to increase as you use the system.
- The system does not use JavaScript, Java, client-side image maps, or any other recent enhancement to HTML or browser technology. I'm by no means averse to using new features - I'm not a ``technophobe'' - but there are severe and often unacknowledged problems of incompatibility and inefficiency which I wanted especially to avoid in this project. For example, client-side image maps would seem to be ideal for implementing selection; but this feature proved to be unacceptably slow, at any rate on the browser on which I tested it.
- There is a search facility. You can search for a given word; for a word occurring close to another given word; for a word with a given root (base or lemma); and you can limit the search by grammatical category. Examples:
- Find all perfect imperatives. (There are 4 of them.)
- Find all plural forms of a particular word.
The search facility is fast, simple and self-explanatory.
- You specify Greek input by typing a Latin transliteration on the keyboard
This site is also hosted here, which may become the principal URL for it:
http://www.kimmitt.co.uk/gnt/gnt.html
This is the most updated Greek text I've found on the Internet. The NA text is in it's 27th edition, last I heard, which is the edition I have, so the online edition is very recent compared to most texts found on Bible study sites.