It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention. The Space Race and the urgency to outstrip the Soviets on the way to the moon led to an enormous proliferation of scientific advance. And I don’t just mean Tang. Really significant stuff. But it took the crisis to make those advances necessary. Think of […]
Questions of Canon – Who Gets to Decide What’s in the Bible? The New Testament
September 24, 2015 By Rich Herbster
Filed Under: Bulletin Board, Rich's Blog Tagged With: Canon, Gnostic, Marcion, New Testament
Translation of What? The Text of the New Testament
July 9, 2015 By Rich Herbster
A survey of the Hebrew manuscript tradition behind our Old Testament does much to bolster our confidence in the accuracy and authority of the first two thirds of our Bible. But what about the twenty-seven books of the New Testament? What exactly stands behind our New Testament translations? The New Testament was written in Greek […]
Filed Under: Bulletin Board, Rich's Blog Tagged With: Greek, Koine, New Testament, Text Criticism