GlossaHouse (www.GlossaHouse.com) has contracted with me to produce a print edition of Nestle-Aland 28th edition version of the Greek New Testament Sentence Diagrams. The commitment to produce the work is not absolute; marketplace appetite will determine how much of the New Testament actually comes into print. The desire to produce the complete set is strong, particularly for the epistles. The complete work envisioned consists of four volumes, with a total page count well above 2,000. The price has not yet been determined, but $99 or more for the complete set seems likely.

In November, 2022, Glossa House released a sample volume containing the diagrams for Ephesians and Colossians, including all the ancillary material. That volume is available for sale here. One of the best ways to promote the eventual publication of the whole NT would be to purchase this sample volume.

The formatting of the work is an exercise in tradeoffs. Large type and small dimensions are both desirable yet obviously incompatible for this work, which for the sake of efficiency must retain the exact page arrangement of the BibleWorks diagrams, which were drawn with letter-sized printing in mind. The compromise settles in at a page size of 7x10 inches, which is slightly oversized, with a type size of about 9.5 points. The notes would ideally appear on the same page as the portion of the diagram treated, but such an arrangement on the printed page is impossible. Instead, a marginal symbol on a diagrams page will alert the reader to the presence of a note on some portion of the diagram at approximately that vertical location, and the notes will appear in groups at the end of each chapter. This is a tradeoff between locating notes as close as possible to the passage commented on and, at the other extreme, placing each volume's notes in a single section and the end of the volume.

The need to avoid page breaks within diagrams as much as possible, combined with the fact that some diagrams are inherently narrow, produces what may appear to be an excessive amount of white space on numerous pages. While the inefficiency is regrettable, the gain in clarity by avoiding those page breaks is well worthwhile, and those who like to annotate such resources heavily will rejoice in the space available for this use.

Here is a sample of two facing pages: