When Neely Tucker’s interview of Ehrman in The Washington Post appeared on March 5 of this year, the sales of Ehrman’s book shot up still higher. Within three months, more than 100,000 copies were sold. But since its publication on November 1, 2005, Misquoting Jesus has been circling higher and higher toward the Amazon peak.1 And since Bart Ehrman, one of North America’s leading textual critics, appeared on two of NPR’s programs (the Diane Rehm Show and Fresh Air with Terry Gross)-both within the space of one week- it has been in the top fifty sellers at Amazon. The tedious details are not the stuff of a bestseller. more For most students of the NT, a book on textual criticism is a real yawn. Not only this, but of the more than five thousand manuscript copies of.įor most students of the NT, a book on textual criticism is a real yawn. This is necessary to do with the books of the Bible-as with all literary documents of the ancient world-because the originals are no longer extant. In other words, textual criticism, as its prime objective, seeks to ascertain the very wording of the original. Before we ask 'How does this text apply to me?' we must ask 'What does this text mean?' And even before we ask 'What does this text mean?' we must first ask, 'What does this text say?' Determining what a text says is what textual criticism is all about. In order for a particular passage to be applied legitimately, it must first be understood accurately. A clear and faithful exposition of the scriptures has, historically, been at the heart of any relevant pastoral ministry. It not only defines what we are to believe it also tells us how we are to behave. more THE Bible has always been of central importance to evangelicals. THE Bible has always been of central importance to evangelicals.
Metzger was born in Middletown, Pennsylvania, on 9 February 1914. He lived by the mantra of a Chinese proverb, 'The faintest ink is more lasting than the strongest memory,' producing more than twenty thousand 3x5 cards of quotations and allusions (now housed at Princeton Theological Seminary), which he had gleaned from decades of research. A master of several tongues, he wrote hundreds of reviews of books published in eight languages, and produced treatises that wrestled with ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Coptic. He was a Renaissance man whose epistemological modus was ad fontes. Yet Metzger was born in the wrong century.
A member of the American Philosophical Society since 1986, Metzger was arguably the best textual critic and Bible translator ever to come out of North America. Bruce Metzger died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey.
more 9 FEBRUARY 1914 * 13 FEBRUARY 2007 FOUR DAYS after his ninety-third birthday, Dr. 9 FEBRUARY 1914 * 13 FEBRUARY 2007 FOUR DAYS after his ninety-third birthday, Dr.
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