John Hobbins has a succinct note on why “To this day, therefore, among Christians an Old Testament canon shared by all does not exist.” His post includes a link to an illustrative PDF on the various Old Testament canons embraced within Christianity (ancient and modern). You may want to compare it to this one, which we published at Bible Study Magazine.
Editor’s note: broken link removed.
Hat tip to Shaun , who directed me to the fact that Ben Witherington blogged on each chapter of Bart’s book back when it came out, some years ago. The first of the series is here . I post this even though it’s well after the fact because I get a lot of...
The most recent issue of Themelios, the academic journal of the Gospel Coalition, contains a review of Matthew’s Theological Grammar: The Father and the Son. This is an important work that argues that “προσκυνέω [proskuneō] in Matthew means worship and...
We’ve interviewed Peter Gurry before on the Naked Bible podcast, and I’ve blogged some of his posts over at the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog. Peter is a bona fide New Testament textual critic, so he’s a good authority for the question posed in...
Peter Gurry of the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog has a concise, clear-headed response to some of the ways Bart Ehrman defends the thesis that the textual transmission of the Greek New Testament wasn’t very reliable: “Evaluating Ehrman’s Comparative...
I received an email today asking this question: “Mike – is this a good rendition? I read where an early rendition of Deuteronomy 33.2-3, when Asherah’s influence had not yet been fully subordinated reads: ‘YHWH came from Sinai and shone forth…....
I recommend reading Peter's even-handed review of "Fragments of Truth," created by Faithlife Films. I've posted the trailer before, but here it is again. The visual quality is very high and, as Peter notes, it's filled with many scholars whose expertise in New...
You know, if we were only to have been given the book of Isaiah, I think we would have had more than enough, when paired with the New Testament, to have gotten the message!
Buddy of mine is a good Catholic and he told me they view the apocrypha as “deutero canonical”. Secondary importance.
I sort of view them almost like that myself.
yes; they don’t like the term “apocryphal” or “non-canonical”
Deuterocanonical for the Catholic Church doesn’t mean these books are of secondary importance, but that their inclusion in the canon wasn’t settled as early as the others. Much like certain books in the NT like 2 Peter or Revelation among others. The whole issue wasn’t settled for Rome until the council of Trent (which is quite late).
agreed, but I think it was settled before Trent. Trent was a re-affirmation vs. Protestantism.