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Tenacity of the Text – a Response
Introduction The issue of the tenacity of the text is one of the important points that was raised by Dr. White in his debate with Dr. Ehrman recently (the debate can be obtained here). One of the illustrations of the tenacity of the text is the illustration of a jigsaw puzzle set that includes 1,010…
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>Understanding Textual Variants
>Dan Wallace at Parchment and Pen has an interesting post (link) that explains textual variants as well as a common mistake made by some “Evangelicals” who try to explain away the textual data, without really understanding it. I’m posting this link both because it is an interesting article, and also in attempt to falsify his…
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Dr. White’s Humanity and Augustine on the Bodily Presence of Christ
Dr. White is human. To those of us who know and love him, this is no surprise. We realize that he is a man, just like us, and that consequently he makes mistakes. As Alexander Pope said, “To err is human, to forgive divine.” Dr. White is human and he, from time to time, errs.Recently…
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This Bible is a Little Too Old
I was amused by the headline “Nine arrested over 2,000 year-old Assyrian Bible.” (link to article) That would put it at A.D. 9, or a minimum of about 30 years before the earliest autographs of the New Testament books! It is a truly beautiful Bible, written in gold letters. However, as one finds upon reading…
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BBC on Siniaticus – Three Reactions
As someone once pointed out to me, it seems journalists are able to get a handle on most topics. The topics that they really botch are the ones you personally happen to know something about. Three blogs that know something about the textual transmission of the New Testament react to the BBC’s discussion of Siniaticus:…
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Ancient Christians and their Bibles
A common myth that we hear from time to time from a number of different directions, is that Bibles were in essence Gutenberg’s invention: a testimony to Northern European printing ingenuity, but not an ancient practice. Of course it is true that printed Bibles necessarily followed the development of printing, but Bibles were being made…
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Dr. White Explains Textual Transmission to Kent Hovind
Dr. White has provided a series of three video responses to some rather uninformed comments by Kent Hovind on Bible versions. Hovind’s comments appear to be gleaned from the book he recommends, a book by Gail Riplinger, one of the prominent promoters of KJV-Onlyism. The problems in Hovind’s presentation are numerous, and even Dr. White’s…