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Bruce M. Metzger
Bruce Manning Metzger
Born
February 9, 1914 Middletown, Pennsylvania February 13, 2007 (aged93) Princeton, New Jersey American Biblical scholar, textual critic, instructor, author
Died
Nationality Occupation
Notable work(s) Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek, The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and significance Spouse(s) Children Isobel Mackay John, James Theological work Era Main interests 20th Century New Testament Text Criticism, New Testament Canon
Bruce Manning Metzger (February 9, 1914 February 13, 2007) was an American biblical scholar and textual critic who was a longtime professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor who served on the board of the American Bible Society and United Bible Societies. He was a scholar of Greek, New Testament, and New Testament textual criticism, and wrote prolifically on these subjects. Metzger is widely considered one of the most influential New Testament scholars of the 20th century.[1][2]
Biography
Metzger was born in Middletown, Pennsylvania, and earned his BA (1935) at Lebanon Valley College. Metzger had strong academic training in Greek before enrolling in Princeton Seminary, and in the summer prior to entering the Seminary, he completed reading through the entire Bible consecutively for the twelfth time.[3] He received his ThB in (1938) at Princeton Theological Seminary, and in the autumn of 1938 began teaching at Princeton as a Teaching Fellow in New Testament Greek. On April 11, 1939, he was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in the United States,[4] which has since merged and is now known as the Presbyterian Church (USA). In 1940, he earned his MA from Princeton University and became an instructor in New Testament. Two years later, he earned his PhD ("Studies in a Greek Gospel Lectionary (Greg. 303)"), also from Princeton University.
Bruce M. Metzger In 1944, Metzger married Isobel Elizabeth Mackay, daughter of the third president of the Seminary, John A. Mackay.[5] That year, he was promoted to Assistant Professor. In 1948, he became Associate Professor, and full Professor in 1954. In 1964, Metzger was named the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature. In 1971, he was elected president of both the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas and the Society of Biblical Literature. The following year, he became president of the North American Patristic Society. Metzger was visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1974 and Wolfson College, Oxford in 1979. In 1978 he was elected corresponding fellow of the British Academy, the Academy's highest distinction for persons who are not residents in the United Kingdom. At the age of seventy, after teaching at Princeton Theological Seminary for a period of forty-six years, he retired as Professor Emeritus. In 1994, Bruce Metzger was honoured with the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Lebanon Valley College, the Findlay College, the University of St Andrews, the University of Mnster and Potchefstroom University. "Metzger's unrivaled knowledge of the relevant languages, ancient and modern; his balanced judgment; and his painstaking attention to detail won him respect across the theological and academic spectrum."[6] Shortly after his 93rd birthday, Metzger died in Princeton, New Jersey. He was survived by his wife Isobel and their two sons, John Mackay Metzger and James Bruce Metzger.
Bruce M. Metzger individuals nor councils created the canon; instead they came to recognize and acknowledge the self-authenticating quality of these writings, which imposed themselves as canonical upon the church.[11]
List of Translations
The NRSV Bible with the Apocrypha, Compact Edition (2003) New Revised Standard Version (1989) Oxford Annotated Apocrypha: Revised Standard Version (1977) The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Revised Standard Version, Expanded Edition (1977 with Herbert G. May) Oxford Annotated Apocrypha: The Apocrypha of the Old Testament (1977)
Festschriften
New Testament Textual Criticism: Its Significance for Exegesis: Essays in Honour of Bruce M. Metzger, ed. Eldon Jay Epp and Gordon D. Fee (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981) A South African Perspective on the New Testament, Essays by South African New Testament Scholars Presented to Bruce Manning Metzger during His Visit to South Africa in 1985, ed. J.H. Petzer and P.J. Hartin (Leiden: Brill, 1986) The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis, ed. Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes, (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1989)
Bruce M. Metzger
Selected Articles
The Meaning of Christs Ascension, Christianity Today, vol. 10, no. 17 (May 27, 1966): 34. Names for the Nameless in the New Testament: A Study in the Growth of Christian Tradition, in Patrick Granfield & Josef A. Jungmann (eds.), Kyriakon: Festschrift Johannes Quasten, 2 vols. (Mnster, Verlag Aschendorff, 1970) vol. 1: 7999. Patristic Evidence and Textual Criticism of the New Testament, New Testament Studies, vol. 18, pp.379400. Presidential Address, Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, delivered August 24, 1971, at Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. Literary Forgeries and Canonical Pseudepigrapha, Journal of Biblical Literature, vol. 91, pp.324. (1972). Presidential address, Society of Biblical Literature, delivered October 29, 1971, in Atlanta, Georgia. How Well Do You Know the Apocrypha? Guideposts (November 1984): 2831.
Selected Interview
"Bruce M. Metzger, PH.D." in The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel, 57-71. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1998.
References
[1] New Testament Scholar and Bible Translator Bruce Metzger Dies (http:/ / www. pres-outlook. com/ news-and-analysis3/ 1-news-a-analysis/ 4073. html) [2] http:/ / www. ncccusa. org/ news/ 070214metzger. html [3] Bruce Manning Metzger, Reminiscences of an Octogenarian (1997), 12. [4] Bruce Manning Metzger, Reminiscences of an Octogenarian (1997), 42. [5] Bruce Manning Metzger, Reminiscences of an Octogenarian (1997), 32. [6] James H. Moorhead, Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012): 434. [7] Obituary (http:/ / www. sbl-site. org/ Article. aspx?ArticleId=638) from Society of Biblical Literature [8] James A. Brooks, "Bruce Metzger as Textual Critic," Princeton Seminary Bulletin, vol. 15, no. 2, new series (1994), 157. [9] "The Fathers did not consider inspiration to be a unique characteristic of canonical writings." Bruce M. Metzger, The Canon of the New Testament (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), 256, and see 211, n. 6. [10] Bruce M. Metzger, The New Testament: Its Background, Growth, and Content, 3rd ed., rev. and enlarged (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003), 3178. And see the detailed discussion in Metzger, The Canon of the New Testament (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), 2514. [11] Bruce M. Metzger, The New Testament: Its Background, Growth, and Content, 3rd ed., rev. and enlarged (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003), 318. Also see Metzger, The Canon of the New Testament (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), 2878.
External links
Obituary (http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=638) from Society of Biblical Literature Tribute (http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/februaryweb-only/107-42.0.html) from Ben Witherington Tribute (http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=4862) from Daniel B. Wallace
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