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BIG NEWS from
@TextandCanon
today. For a while now we’ve had more requests for our Scribes & Scripture conference than we can accept. So we recorded all four lectures at a professional studio with a live audience. So, now you can watch from anywhere! Check out the preview below.
We are proud to announce the Scribes and Scripture Conference on the History of the Bible will now be available digitally for purchase!
If you or someone you know are interested click the link below to find out more:
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“During the millennium Santa will be bound for 1000 years.”
Still my all-time favorite student typos.
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Met a woman at church yesterday who said she got saved this year after watching
@gospel_american
. She went on to find good sermon videos on YouTube and her husband got saved shortly after. Praise God!
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This continues to be the book I get the most feedback on from students—all positive. If you haven’t read it, do it!
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Can confirm that Old Glory is a textual variant not found in any extant manuscript of Heb 12.
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A little personal news: I have been promoted to Associate Professor
@PhoenixSeminary
and approved for a sabbatical this Fall which I’ll be spending at
@SEBTS
with my family. We’re very much looking forward to it. I hope to write, research, and revise some courses.
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A fingerprint in Codex Sinaiticus (4th c.) at Sirach 8.5 (Q68 f. 4v).
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I’m just going to say it: one-man Bible translations are usually vanity projects with no reason to exist beyond selling copies to the translator’s fan base. There are exceptions. But they are few.
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If you’re a first-year Greek student you may be starting to translate 1 John soon. If so, let me challenge you to take this chance to not only translate it but to start reading it in a manuscript.
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Lady Jane Gray was queen of England for about 10 days before “Bloody Mary” put an end to that. She wrote this the night before her beheading.
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Why do people need a Bible translation in their main language if they can conduct business or trade in another language that already has a Bible?
Because they need the Bible in the language they sin in.
That’s how I heard a missionary explain it recently.
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Over 500 F. F. Bruce article are now free online thanks to Rob Bradshaw.
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Dear newsmedia, please stop calling this a “new chapter” or a “new translation.” It’s neither.
It is a new witness (yay!) to an old translation of a chapter we’ve always had.
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To celebrate this book getting 100 ratings on Amazon and being two years old this week, I’m giving away a free copy. Rules: (1) RT to enter and (2) you can’t be named
@jenniferguo
!
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Some better pictures of the new ‘Jesus sayings’ fragment (aka P.Oxy. 5575).
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Kids are awesome
This ten-year-old Coke commercial (released only in Argentina), remains the single best minute-long argument for pro-natalism that I have ever seen.
@MoreBirths
@BirthGauge
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Whoever publishes the first Hebrew Bible with quality marginal cross-references akin to my Nestle-Aland will get all my money. Someone make this happen!
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“The gender of the 12 apostles definitely doesn’t matter. But the gender of the first witnesses to the resurrection definitely does.”
See a problem here?
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This ranks as one of the best short NT commentaries on my shelf. Fee had a gift.
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Religion reporters excited about a candidate’s faith: rather than ask “how has your faith influenced you/your policies?” I’d love you to ask “where does your faith put you at odds with your party?” That might tell us a lot more about their faith, their politics, & their party.
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Someday I’m going to write something on the marketing of English Bible translations. Somehow, each new one manages to be the most accurate, the most faithful, etc., etc.
What has happened to the humility of the KJV translators?
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Bruce Metzger…
—taught more students than anyone at PTS
—was president of SBL, SNTS, & NAPS
—received 4 books in his honor (Festschriften)
—saw his first publication in 1938, his last in 2006
—edited two major Bibles (NRSV and UBS)
—was never educated outside of Pennsylvania
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Great to see, but boy are these Amazon categories getting niche.
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2 editors, 14 great contributors, 24 months, 150k words, and yesterday it went to
@ivpacademic
for editing. Can’t wait to get it out there!
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I think an easy way to show that the Bible teaches penal substitutionary atonement is with three simple observations:
1. Throughout the Bible, death is a penalty for sin
2. Jesus died but was sinless, therefore…
3. Jesus’ death was a punishment for someone else’s sin (ours)
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Every New Testament scholar hearing about Jeopardy right now is like: THIS IS OUR MOMENT!!
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Friends, believe me when I tell you that Bible translation is definitely not like the telephone game.
@megbasham
Wait let me get this straight, you're just going to take a book that's been translated over and over again over 2,000 years at face value? Is that not just a huge game of telephone?
This is why biblical emergency classes are so freaking important people. Y'all just don't get it
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We’ve reached that point in the conference where I’m asking myself, “Why aren’t we in San Diego?”
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The 4-volume ECM of Revelation is slated for publication this year. Most will be immediately interested in the almost 100 textual changes, but there is MUCH more to these editions than just textual changes.
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“Paul’s letters were surprisingly expensive to us, but actually the reason is that his letters were uncommonly long.” Randy Richards estimates that Romans would’ve (conservatively!) cost over $2000 to prepare and send in todays dollars.
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Very excited to hear from
@ivpacademic
today that my book edited with Elijah Hixson is now listed on their site and set for release in November! Table of contents should be posted before too long. Check it out:
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Just met with a student who was heavily influenced by the prosperity Gospel and was pulled out of it by
@gospel_american
. He was also Oneness Pentecostal and is now Trinitarian. Praise God!
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Yesterday I had two ladies come to my door to ask if I knew about the female god. They pointed me to Gen 1.26 to argue there are two images (male + female) and two gods (“let us” etc.)—one male and one female. Let’s just say, from there it did not go as they expected.
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PSA for apologists: Matthew’s Gospel exists in about 1,800 Greek MSS; Revelation in only about 300. If you don’t think this makes Matthew 6× more textually reliable than Revelation, then don’t apply this same logic to the NT and classical works either!
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Last week, a student learned the Greek alphabet on Monday in Greek 1 and was reading P45 on Wednesday, thus fulfilling all my hopes and dreams as a Greek professor.
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Last week I got to celebrate my last commencement with Wayne Grudem. It’s been a treat to teach with him these last 7 years.
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William Tyndale’s letter from prison, not long before he was killed.
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Started reading around in this book last night and it’s already challenging my view of Matthew 5:32; 19:9.
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Careless exaggeration breeds careless exaggeration. Take point 3, here. It directly conflicts with point 1. If most of our MSS are later (as they are) then so are most of our variants. That’s how it works. Spend time with a big apparatus to see it. (Most NT scholars never do.)
What’s being left out:
- Vast majority are from after the 9th century.
- The earlier the manuscripts, the less they contain.
- The earlier the manuscripts, the more variants there are.
- For almost all NT texts, we can’t cannot account for the first century+ of transmission.
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“The Old Testament is the pedestal on which the Gospel rests, and the root out of which it came forth…. In other words, there was no such thing as a NT church without a Bible.” —Bavinck
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Got to see a 1602 Bishops’ Bible today! It was the source for the KJV. Amazing. See here 👉
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The BIG NEWS from
@TextandCanon
is that, after almost a year of work, we are finally able to unveil our brand-new website! Besides hosting info about the Institute, it’s a hub of accessible articles on how we got the Bible from experts on the subject.
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Outrageous! I 100% agree with the motive here but disagree with the method. Take your GNT to church but don’t be smug or showy about it. Gifts (like knowing Greek) are for serving. Steward them by taking your GNT to church. But use them to serve others not yourself.
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Got to look at Duke’s only Greek manuscript of Paul (13th c.) yesterday, which, of course, meant checking Ephesians 5:22. There’s the verb and a new paragraph as expected.
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Wuuuut. Amazing
I want to honour
#AndreBraugher
's contribution to New Testament scholarship by remembering the greatest NT textual criticism joke ever to air on television:
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No. Because no one needs them to be. Also no one says this.
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Folks, I’ve been on vacation which has meant watching you all get my book before me. Torture! But here it was upon my return. Lots of love when into this book. I hope it informs and inspires!
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Looking forward to this and hoping I can finally get myself to switch from Erasmian. We shall see.
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PSA for any students out there writing on Paul: one of these men is James Gunn and the other is James Dunn. Neither one is James D. G. Gunn.
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Frankly, I wasn’t sure I’d finish this book, let alone within a few weeks of starting it. But it keeps a good pace and is engaging till the end.
The basic thesis is that dispensationalism, as a set of theological commitments, has lost much of its vibrancy and influence. 🧵 1/13
Finished this book this week. I wasn’t quite sure why to expect, but it very much exceeded my expectations. It was not at all the screed I thought it might be from the cover. Surprisingly well written too. It kept me engaged to the end.
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Miles Coverdale published the first complete English Bible (1535) since Wycliffe. He did not think that having multiple translations was a bad thing—and he knew he had precedent on his side.
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Hot hot hot item at SBL, folks. Get one for your favorite youth pastor!
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Check out this cool ornament my wife got me for Christmas! What books did you get?
Retweet with a pic of the books you got for Christmas and I’ll give one of you a free copy of the real book.
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I was given this name badge at new student orientation today. But I am not worthy
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It’s in the wild! I’m told it’s on sale at the Center for Pastor Theologians conference. Thanks to Jeff Gissing from
@ivpacademic
for the photo. Eager to get my author copies now.
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Thank you
@BakerAcademic
. This looks helpful to those new to the issues covered. In some cases it looks like new material. The perfect chapter was very good
@michaelgaubrey
. BUT I already bought a copy so I’ll give this one away to someone who retweets this.
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In writing/talking about the KJV as a translation, I try to have two goals beyond the main one of telling its history well: 1. Gently counter bad KJV-onlyist arguments; 2. Leave people wanting to pick up the KJV and actually read it.
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Excellent book. It gives a good sense of the political and social context of the King James Bible. And McGrath is a good writer.
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Here is a 1611 printing of the King James Bible, showing 1 John 2.23. Notice how the second half of the verse is in smaller roman type rather than larger blackletter.
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Sent this off a year ago today. Yesterday I printed proofs from
@ivpacademic
. Still excited to get it out!
2 editors, 14 great contributors, 24 months, 150k words, and yesterday it went to
@ivpacademic
for editing. Can’t wait to get it out there!
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Teaching Greek is one of the absolute best parts of my job. I get to correct misconceptions, show them it’s worth it, and foster proper confidence to handle the New Testament in ministry. Not everyone needs to learn Greek, but what a privilege it is for those who can.
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A reminder from John Chadwick that κεφαλή does not mean a “source” of a river in classical Greek. It means “extremity.” Please stop citing LSJ as proof otherwise.
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Finished this book this week. I wasn’t quite sure why to expect, but it very much exceeded my expectations. It was not at all the screed I thought it might be from the cover. Surprisingly well written too. It kept me engaged to the end.
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I’m surprised by the jump in sales for the CSB but it reflects my own anecdotal evidence. What’s most interesting to me is that a lot of people I talk to who’ve switched to the CSB switched from the ESV. It wasn’t that long ago that the ESV was what they switched *to*.
In recent months, the CSB has outranked all versions but the NIV in sales.
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If you appreciate your pastor today is a great time to let him know. Monday’s are often a bit blue for pastors.
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I ask myself, if Stephen ran SBL would it be more inclusive of scholars like me or less?
🧵Let's talk again about
@SBLsite
advertising for misogynist & homophobic institutions. It's a small piece of the larger cultural machinery that normalizes the dehumanizing of others, not to mention discrimination in scholarship
Example now:
@PhoenixSeminary
President search 1/
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Just realized today that the NA28, unlike NA27, sets parallel Gospel passages in bold type in the outer margin. Very handy.
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When the systematic theologian and the NT prof are independently asking the librarians to buy the same book set you know good things are happening at your seminary.
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Very sad to hear that Gordon Fee has just passed away. He was a giant in my field—and not just in mine. Here’s a brief tribute to him here. I only met him once though and I’d love to hear from others who knew him or studied with him.
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Alright, now that pics of the new papyrus are out I can confirm that this is a fragment I worked on (with others) as a grad student. Really exciting to see it finally published! I remember we identified text from Matt—but also not Matt—and were puzzled.
From the latest Oxy. papyri: “Among the theological texts, three are of exceptional interest. 5575 is an early copy of sayings of Jesus corresponding in part to the canonical gospels of Matthew and Luke and in part to the apocryphal gospel of Thomas…”
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Some thoughts on Rom 2.15 and what it means that the “work of the law is written on the hearts” of gentiles.
🧵It’s fairly common to see this phrase as a reference to Jer 31.33. You can see this in the margin of my NA25. But it’s NOT referenced in the newer NA28.
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An English translation of Erasmus’s opening to his Greek NT—the first ever published.
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Good news to announce today.
Super excited to announce that
@pjgurry
and I have partnered with
@crossway
to publish a popular level book on how we got the Bible. Thanks to
@between2worlds
and company for working with us to tell the fascinating story of history's most amazing Book.
@TextandCanon
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I’ve never come away from serious study of the Bible disappointed or bored. Not once.
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A friend at church pointed out that in John 20.12, we have what looks like the mercy seat in the empty tomb: “And she [Mary] saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.” Anyone know more on this view? It was new to me.
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You don’t want to miss our latest article
@TextandCanon
. It explores a newly digitized Bible from 1602 with handwritten edits made by the translators of the King James Bible—maybe the single most important source we have for their work.
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I’ve read my fair share on 1 Cor 11, but this article may be the most interesting of all. Since it’s in a TC Festshrift where you might not expect it, I’m sharing it here to let you know you should read it!
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My daughter adding some additions to the order of service. The last person who did the prayer before she wrote this was her dad. 🤷🏼♂️
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