HOW RELIABLE ARE THE GOSPELS? What is the Evidence that Luke Wrote His Gospel before Mark?

During the first 17 centuries of our Common Era, the reliability of the Gospels was never seriously questioned. In the 19th century and beyond, some academics have questioned the traditional view of the Gospels as being inspired by God and have instead suggested that they were written by human authors who were attempting to convey their own perspectives and interpretations of the life and teachings of Jesus.

December 26, 2022 0

How Did the King James Version Come Down to Us?

The King James Bible (KJV) and the King James Bible (KJB), and the Authorized Version, is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611 by the sponsorship of King James VI and I. The 80 books of the King James Version include 39 books of the Old Testament, an intertestamental section containing 14 books of what Protestants consider the Apocrypha, and 27 books of the New Testament. Noted for its “majesty of style,” the King James Version has been described as one of the most important books in English culture and a driving force in the shaping of the English-speaking world.

December 15, 2022 0

List of New Testament Verses Not Included In Modern English Translations

These New Testament verses not included in modern English translations are verses of the New Testament that exist in older English translations (primarily the King James Version) but do not appear or have been relegated to footnotes in later versions, such as the Updated American Standard Version (UASV). Scholars have generally regarded these verses as later additions to the original text.

December 10, 2022 1

2 TIMOTHY 3:16: Was Paul Referring to the Hebrew Text or the Greek Septuagint When He Said All Scripture Is Inspired by God?

Paul would have been aware of many nuances in his day when it came to the original language, Hebrew text, and the Greek Septuagint. So, this is no easy question to answer.

December 6, 2022 0

How Many Second-Century [100 – 200 A.D.] New Testament Manuscripts Are There?

In the case of the New Testament papyri manuscripts, our early evidence for the Greek New Testament, size is irrelevant. They range from centimeters encompassing a couple of verses to a codex with many books of the New Testament. But all of them add something significant.

November 28, 2022 0

NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPTS: Copies of the New Testament Produced or Reproduced by Hand

Originally, all New Testament texts were written in Greek. By the year 500, these texts had been translated into Syriac, various Coptic, Latin, Gothic, Armenian, Georgian, and perhaps Ethiopic dialects. This article is a great introduction for those just learning about New Testament Textual Studies.

September 27, 2022 0

NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL STUDIES: Bruce Metzger’s Judgment of Variant Readings According to Text-Types

Because there are so many individual manuscripts, textual critics are hard-pressed to know the individual characteristics of each manuscript. Consequently, many textual critics categorize the manuscripts into text-types, which they then use in their evaluation of textual variants.

September 15, 2022 0

NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL STUDIES: The Aland’s Local-Genealogical Method

Kurt Aland (1979, 43) favors a type of textual criticism that he calls the local-genealogical method. He defines it as follows:

September 14, 2022 0

New Testament Textual Studies and Scribal-Gap Filling

It is my opinion that scribal gap-filling accounts for many of the textual variants (especially textual expansions) in the New Testament—particularly in the narrative books (the Four Gospels and Acts). What is scribal gap-filling?

September 14, 2022 0

The Process of Attempting to Ascertain the Original Wording of the Original Texts of the New Testament

Confronted by a mass of conflicting readings, editors must decide which variants deserve to be included in the text and which should be relegated to the apparatus. Although at first, it may seem to be a hopeless task amid so many thousands of variant readings to sort out those that should be regarded as original, textual scholars have developed certain generally acknowledged criteria of evaluation.

September 8, 2022 1

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