Weekly Blog
May 17, 2023
how do we get the Bible into our own language? This is the process of translation. We will look at the process of translation in this and upcoming posts.
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May 03, 2023
This post is scheduled for Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Tomorrow will be the National Day of Prayer. This is a great time for a brief reminder of the importance of praying for our nation.
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Apr 26, 2023
Recently we have taken a brief look at the very technical and difficult process of textual criticism. So I wanted to take a step back this week to remind us of the confidence we can have in God’s Word that we have in the Scripture today.
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Apr 19, 2023
Today I want to take a quick look at how scholars decide which manuscripts are more likely closer to the original reading of the actual writings of the New Testament. Textual criticism is a complex practice, but there are a few things that we can observe.
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Apr 12, 2023
In recent posts, we have looked at some of the oldest and most important manuscripts of the New Testament. Previously, I had mentioned that there are thousands of fragments and entire manuscripts of the New Testament. Today, I want to briefly look at the fact that these manuscripts are largely contained in two major manuscript families: the Byzantine (or Majority) and the Alexandrian.
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Mar 29, 2023
Last week we looked at Codex Sinaiticus, which I noted was one of the two most important ancient Codices of the New Testaments. Today we will look at the other one – Codex Vaticanus.
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Mar 22, 2023
The first important codex we will look at is the Codex Sinaiticus. It was named this when it came to the attention of scholars in the 19th century at Saint Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai Peninsula.
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Mar 15, 2023
Last week we looked at the rich deposit of New Testament documents available to us. Not all of these are full documents however. Today I want to take a look at a few early important fragments, papyri, and codices that scholars use to try and determine the original text of the New Testament.
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Mar 08, 2023
In recent posts, we looked at how scholars try to determine the original reading of Old Testament texts. Now we will turn to how this is done for the New Testament.
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