Bruce Metzger

Bruce Manning Metzger (born 1914) is a professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor who serves on the board of the American Bible Society. He is a respected scholar of Greek, New Testament and Old Testament Bible, and has written prolifically on these subjects.

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1914 - Princeton Theological Seminary - Bible - American Bible Society - Greek - New Testament - Old Testament

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Meztger's commentaries often utilize Historical Criticism and Higher Criticism, which attempt to explain the literary and historical origins of the Bible and the biblical canon. For instance, Metzger argues that the primitive church which assembled the New Testament did not consider divine inspiration to be a sufficient for a book to be canonized and in fact considered other works such as The Shepherd of Hermas and the Epistles of Clement to be inspired but not canonical. Because of such views, he has been criticized by some evangelicals who believe Metzger's views contradict the idea that the Bible is inerrant in its original manuscripts.

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Historical Criticism - Higher Criticism - Biblical canon - Divine inspiration - ''The Shepherd'' of Hermas - Epistles of Clement - Evangelicals - Inerrant - Manuscript

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Metzger was the chairman of the Reader's Digest Condensed Bible, has edited and provided commentary for many bible translations and has written dozens of books. He also served as the general editor of the New Revised Standard translation of the Bible.

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''Reader's Digest Condensed Bible'' - New Revised Standard translation - Bible

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