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Bruce Manning Metzger (February 9, 1914 – February 13, 2007) was an American biblical scholar, Bible translator and textual critic who was a longtime professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor who served on the board of the American Bible Society and United Bible Societies.
According to Bruce M. Metzger, "the general validity of their critical principles and procedures is widely acknowledged by scholars today." [ 11 ] In 1981 Metzger said: The international committee that produced the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament, not only adopted the Westcott and Hort edition as its basic text, but followed their ...
Ehrman said, "The position I argue for in Misquoting Jesus does not actually stand at odds with Prof. Metzger’s position that the essential Christian beliefs are not affected by textual variants in the manuscript tradition of the New Testament" and "[m]ost textual variants (Prof. Metzger and I agree on this) have no bearing at all on what a ...
Barbara Aland, Kurt Aland, Johannes Karavidopoulos, Carlo Maria Martini, Bruce Metzger in co-operation with the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Münster [14] In 2011 the Global Board of the United Bible Societies appointed a new editorial committee that will prepare future editions of the Nestle–Aland Novum Testamentum Graece as ...
In the preface to the NRSV Bruce Metzger wrote for the committee that "many in the churches have become sensitive to the danger of linguistic sexism arising from the inherent bias of the English language towards the masculine gender, a bias that in the case of the Bible has often restricted or obscured the meaning of the original text". [5]
In 1953, former American Bible Society board member Bruce M. Metzger stated that the translation was written to support Jehovah's Witness doctrines, with "several quite erroneous renderings of the Greek", [120] and cited 6 examples (John 1:1, [121] Col. 1:15-17, [122] Phil. 2:6, [123] Titus 2:13, [124] 2 Pet. 1:1, [125] and Rev. 3:14 [125]). In ...
In his account of the controversial history surrounding the Yonan codex b, Christian Greek-primacist Bruce Metzger tells of dating it to the 7th century at its earliest. [3] The stories of the Yonan Codex a and the Khaboris Codex b are linked by the involvement of Dan MacDougald.
In 1962, the first edition of the OAB, edited by Rev. Dr. Herbert G. May and Dr. Bruce M. Metzger was published which used the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible. [1] [2] [3] In 1965, the OAB was re-published with the Apocrypha [2] because some of the Apocrypha is used by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.