Common Denominator

continuing my series on Unexamined Assumptions ...  _________________ 2. The Spirit versus the Letter 1. I was raised on the King James Vers...

previous post _______________ 12. I think I had Wang in my second year. He and Oswalt taught the courses that exposed us to scholarship on...

This week's "patron only" podcast and video on my Patreon page explain why Acts 8:37 is missing from modern translations of t...

I was explaining to a class what the issue is with regard to verses that are in the KJV but not in other versions. I decided to explain in s...

I took a fun class in seminary called New Testament Textual Criticism. It was with the late Bob Lyon, one of those professor personalities t...

Here's the rest of that section of the lecture after the first bit : __________ The King James Version of 1611 was based on the so-cal...

I'm cleaning up a transcription of a video lecture for a class. It is on the text of the Bible. I thought I'd post some of my commen...

If you're interested, a quick glimpse into one discussion in one of my classes:  

I had a great time last night in Colorado Springs with the Passages exhibit that Steve Green of Hobby Lobby has been putting together over ...

Delighted to give a presentation on Tuesday night at Passages in Colorado Springs.  Most of the paper is really on which manuscripts of Act...

1.  My early realizations about context and continued with last weekend's start of discussing issues of the biblical text: 2.1  Issue...

My weekend series of hermeneutical biography.  It started with... 1. My early realizations about context ... and continued with last wee...

My second weekend post in my hermeneutical autobiography series.   Yesterday I started  writing on my pilgrimage on the subject of the bibli...

For the last few weekends, I have been sharing a little of my own pilgrimage in the understanding of Scripture.  Last Sunday I finished a fi...

I'm about to get back on a plane this morning with Jerry Pattengale and head back to Indiana.  I had a great time in Atlanta yesterday a...

Finishing my paper for Atlanta tomorrow night.  Here's a brief excerpt. ___________________ ...But I digress again. The original manus...

Thought I'd give the quick outline of the paper I'm giving Tuesday night at 7pm in Atlanta. Tickets are free but necessary through t...

Today I read a chapter by Dale Martin in a volume co-edited by Bart Ehrman and Daniel Wallace called The Reliability of the New Testament . ...

I'm trying to read through the collection of essays called Revisiting the Corruption of the New Testament  in preparation for a talk I...

I'm giving a paper in 9 days in Atlanta titled, "Are Differences in the Manuscripts a Problem for Christian Faith?" I actuall...