Bohairic Coptic Collection (2 vols.)

This Bohairic Coptic edition of the New Testament is based on the critical edition of Horner, and was prepared by J. Warren Wells. It is designed to be used alongside the resources of the Sahidic Coptic Collection, which were also prepared by Mr. Wells. Featuring uniformity in spelling, punctuation and other usage as is found in standard Greek editions, the Bohairic text found in this edition of the New Testament is intended to be coherent, consistent, and easy-to-use. Standardization and simplicity was the goal, allowing the text to be valuable to students and instructors as well as translators and textual critics.

Critical editions of the Greek New Testament (e.g. NA27, UBS4; also Metzger’s Textual Commentary) regularly cite Bohairic Coptic editions in the apparatus; such citation points to areas where the Bohairic Coptic either strengthens or challenges the form of the text. In such instances, Bohairica: The New Testament According to the Bohairic Text provides a source to confirm and evaluate such readings in their whole context.

The Bohairic Coptic New Testament was one of the earliest translations of the Greek of the New Testament. But outside of Egypt, Coptic is not a widely known language these days — even among scholars of the New Testament. Thankfully, when George Horner prepared his critical editions of the Coptic text in the early 1900’s, he also prepared translations of the Sahidic and Bohairic versions for the edition. Logos is excited to make available Horner's translation of the Bohairic Coptic New Testament

Horner writes in the preface to his Bohairic edition:

The object of the translation is to supply the English reader with some knowledge of the Greek text which was translated by the Egyptians of the North-Western province. … This being the main object, it is also intended by literal treatment to give an idea of the peculiarities of the language and the method of the version.