How We Got Our Bible
Revelation/Inspiration
- Revelation
General, Ps. 19:1/Rom. 1:18-21
Special, 2 Pet. 1:21/2 Tim. 3:16
- Inspiration
Jesus came forth from a sinner
Technical/General (2 Tim. 3:15)
Canon
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Esther and James
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Muratorian—180 (22 books)
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Eusebius—324 (20 books)
- Athanasias—367 (27 books)
- OT: written by prophet, no contradictions, accepted for centuries
- NT: apostolic authority, used in churches, taught sound doctrine
Preservation
- Not Perfection
- Jer. 36:2, 23, 32
- Dt. 4:2, Prov. 30:6, Rev. 22:18-19
Constantine
Arch of Constantine, Rome, Italy.
Transmission
- Textual Criticism brings it back
- Translation Methods/Chart
- Text Types
- Paul used LXX
- Ximenes--Erasmus--Stephanus (chapter/verse)
P46/P66
Sinaiticus and St. Catherine
Erasmus/Ximenes GNT
Erasmus' GNT (1516, first published) and Ximenes' GNT (1514, first printed)
(photo taken at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Muenster, GE)
Printing
- Crystallization
- Photos
Gutenberg Press/Bible
English Bible History
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1382 Wycliffe (first complete; later exhumed)
Wycliffe
Bible
- 1453 Gutenberg
- 1516 Erasmus
- 1522 Luther (German)
- 1525 Tyndale (NT; later executed)
Tyndale's
1536 Edition Tyndale's
Execution
- 1537 Matthew Bible
Wittenburg and Wartburg
- 1538, Great Bible
- 1560, Geneva Bible (Pilgrims; chapter/verse)
- 1568, Bishop’s Bible
- 1611, KJV (Westminster)
The
"Wicked" Bible
Westminster Abbey
Other Information
- Apocrypha
- Names/Order from LXX to Vulgate
- Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek (Alexander’s soldiers)
- Papyrus
- Modern Footnotes
Papyrus growing in front of the Making sheets from papyrus
Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Dr. Barbara Aland, Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Dr. Bruce Metzger, Princeton, NJ
Muenster, Germany
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