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Originally Posted by Falcao
For the New Testament I think the one closest to the original text is the "Novum Testamentum Graece", also known as the Nestle-Aland's New Testament. One needs to remember that the New Testament was written originally in Greek.
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Yes, the 4th Revised Edition of the UBS "Greek New Testament", which is based on the 26th edition of the Nestle-Aland "Novum Testamentum Graece", is regarded as the "definitive" scholarly New Testament source. It gives a "standard" text, together with all the variant readings from the major manuscript sources (almost 6000 Greek NT manuscripts, ranging from the 2nd to the 16th centuries, are now known to exist, all of which differ from one another to a greater or lesser extent).
The UBS/NA Greek New Testament is the starting point for all modern NT translations, in whatever language.