New Testament Studies
Michael Horton Interviews Dan Wallace on White Horse Inn
Last month, Michael Horton interviewed me concerning the reliability of the text of the New Testament. The radio show aired today, 12 May 2013. Here’s the link: http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2013/05/12/whi-1153-has-jesus-been-misquoted/
The Authenticity of the Gospel of Judas
Katherine Weber of the Christian Post asked me some questions this week about the recent revelation that the Gospel of Judas had been authenticated by a number of means. See http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/08/17656331-scholars-reveal-how-they-scrambled-to-authenticate-gospel-of-judas for the news report, and http://www.christianpost.com/news/gospel-of-judas-free-of-forgeries-but-still-fake-heretical-says-new-testament-scholar-93781/ for Katherine’s article (published 11 April 2013). Below are her questions and my responses. This will also be published in the Christian […]
A New Kind of Apologetics: Christian Renaissance
News on the Christian Renaissance Apologia Conference coming up on April 12–13: I’ve mentioned this apologetics conference a couple of times on this site, but I thought I’d give a lot more information on it this go-around. First, a word about Christian Renaissance. This is a new concept in apologetics. In fact, it’s much more […]
A New New Testament: Are You Serious?
Just released from the giant publishing firm, Houghton Miflin Harcourt: A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts, edited by Hal Taussig. The advertisement from HMH distributed widely via email last week was not shy in its claims for the 600-page volume. The subject line read, “It […]
Here is a big event coming up in April. It is a new kind of apologetics conference in the Dallas Fort-Worth metroplex. If you’re in the area, you owe it to yourself to go! Visit the website to find out more information.
Snoopy Seminar coming on Feb 22–23, 2013
On February 22 and 23, I will be conducting a “Snoopy Seminar” at the Hope Center in Plano, Texas (2001 W. Plano Parkway). This seminar is a fun, interactive, and challenging exercise about textual criticism. Enrollment is limited to 60 people. Intended audience: motivated laypeople, though we are not limiting it to them (seminary students […]
Do Manuscripts of Q Still Exist?
A favorite argument against the existence of Q is simply that no manuscripts of Q have ever been discovered. No more than this bare assertion is usually made. But a little probing shows that this argument has some serious weaknesses to it. In particular, three come to mind: (1) If Matthew and Luke swallowed up […]
Paul and Justification by Faith: The Real Jewish Evidence
The New Perspective on Paul (NPP) has argued that Paul didn’t really disagree with Judaism in terms of what it meant to be justified by God, but rather disagreed on whether Gentiles were included in that justification. NPPers have charged the ‘old perspective’ folks (viz., the Reformers) with misreading the Judaism of Paul’s day. At […]
Five More Myths about Bible Translations and the Transmission of the Text
There’s an old Italian proverb that warns translators about jumping in to the task: “Traduttori? Traditori!” Translation: “Translators? Traitors!” The English proverb, “Something’s always lost in the translation,” is clearly illustrated in this instance. In Italian the two words are virtually identical, both in spelling and pronunciation. They thus involve a play on words. But […]
Nestle-Aland 28: The New Standard in Critical Texts of the Greek New Testament
Overview At the annual Society of Biblical Literature conference held in Chicago last month, the latest edition of the Novum Testamentum Graece, or the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, was unveiled. This has been a long time coming—nineteen years to be exact. The Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung (INTF) in Münster is behind this production, and deserves […]
