The NEB started with Eberhard Nestle’s late 19th-century Novum Testamentum Graece as a basis; choosing among variant manuscript readings, the editors created the text, later published as The Greek New Testament (1964), edited by R.V.G. Tasker. The REB, a 1989 revision of the NEB, draws heavily on the later work of Kurt Aland in Novum Testamentum Graece (1979). Another respected basic text is The Greek New Testament (1983), published by the United Bible Societies.