Apostoliki Diakonia edition (ℓAD)

Steven Avery

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Apostoliki Diakonia edition (ℓAD)

Listed as PRO in UBS-3 and UBS-4

We should also mention the published lectionary text of the Greek church, the Apostoliki Diakonia edition (cited in UBS4 as ℓAD). This appears to bear much the same sort of relation to the Majority lectionary text that the Textus Receptus has to the Majority Text: It is clearly a witness to the Majority type, but with many minor deviations which render it an imperfect witness.
 

Steven Avery

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ORTHODOX NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP

Church, Apostoliki Diakonia (Αποστολική Διακονία), which was founded in 1936, other significant publishers and distributers of the Antoniades text have been the Athenian publisher Michael Saliberos (Μιχαήλ Σαλίβερος), and the Greek Orthodox lay movements Zoe (Η Ζωή), and Soter (Ο Σωτήρ)

Gibson also makes more immediate references to the Antoniades edition. For example, he asserts that ‟the Apostoliki Diakonia edition is the best printed representation of the Apostolos tradition, and the TR is the worst, but neither is particularly representative in general.”134 The Apostoliki Diakonia edition actually represents a reproduction of the Antoniades text. His perspective on these textual traditions is illustrated by his Appendix 3:
 
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