The book purports to "describe the differing readings at each point, considering the evidence in support of each and explaining why the form in the editorial text has been chosen."
The book adds English renderings of variants.
The volume claims "to present a new guide based on current scholarship."
It refers to "other publications which may be useful to those wishing to study a particular variant in more detail or to explore a differing interpretation of the data."
Technical terms are explained in a Glossary. From my count, the glossary includes 97 terms, including:
asyndetoncatenaCGBMcodexconflationdittographyeclecticismexternal evidenceharmonisationinitial textinternal evidenceKoinelemmamajusculenomen sacrumsecondary evidencetext-typeTextus ReceptusuncialWestern non-interpolationwitness
The book is "neither a record of the committee's decisions nor an endorsement of every reading adopted as the editorial text... [R]ather than defending the committee's text, it seeks to present a rationale for each decision which indicates which of the alternate readings are worthy of serious consideration. The author has tried to make the best case for the reading printed in the editorial text, while representing differing possibilities and points of view."
Care to examine a variant unit together? Below is Matt. 5:22. I'll post my own observations later. In the meantime, what do you think? Has the author made the best case for the reading followed in UBS6 while fairly representing dissenting points of view?
NOTE: The authors mentioned in footnote 7 are:
P. Wernberg-Møller: "A Semitic Idiom in Matt. v.22." NTS 3.1: 71-73.David Alan Black: "Jesus on Anger: the Text of Matthew 5:22a Revisited." NovT 30: 1-8.Ulrich Victor: "Textkritischer Kommentar zu ausgewählten Stellen des Matthäusevangeliums." FilNeot 22: 55-90.