 How
We Got the Bible
The "How We Got the Bible" multi-media presentation is designed
for the churches. It is a brief and informative treatment that
allows for flexible possibilities in terms of presentation. It
can be held in one session, or extended in seminar fashion over
several days and several sessions. It is the seedling of a future
television documentary to be called The Eclipse of the Sacred,
which will also be accompanied by a CD ROM program and a popular
manual, all of the same title.
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The
Majority Text
This was a collection of essays gathered together to further the
debate surrounding
the call to revive the Byzantine, or what some call the Majority
Text (we at the Institute call this the Ecclesiastical Text). Eldon
J. Epp declared in 1979 that there was such a revival under way
("New Testament Textual Criticism in America: Requiem for a Discipline,"
Journal of Biblical Literature 98 (March 1978): 94-98. This announcement
was in response to a book by Wilbur Pickering, titled: The Identity
of the New Testament Text, a debate that appeared in the Journal
of the Evangelical Theological Society (vols. 21, nos. 1-2, 1978),
and the edition of the Majority Greek New Testament that would be
published by Thomas Nelson and edited by Zane Hodges, et al., 1982.
The Introduction to this collection offers an assessment of the
so-called Majority Text school out of mainly Dallas Theological
Seminary. The second edition (cover shown here) is now available.
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 The
Revival of the Ecclesiastical Text and the Claims of the Anabaptists
This essay treats the mostly American extremist advocates of the
old Anglican Bible who tend to be separatists and so outside of
the normal channels of technical information and data gathering
necessary to understand the debate and issues involved in translation
philosophy and N.T. text criticism. This essay discovers the historical
and sociological roots of this discordant movement. While this edition
is now out of print the essay now (2000) appears in the collection
of essays published by the Institute and called: The Ecclesiastical
Text: Text Criticism, Biblical Authority and the Popular Mind.
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Bulletin
of the Institute for Renaissance and Reformation Biblical Studies
The Bulletin of the Institute for Renaissance and Reformation Biblical
Studies is soon to be launched, thus replacing the earlier series
(The Bulletin for the Institute for Reformation Biblical Studies).
As with the earlier series this semi-annual publication will contain
studies treating text criticism, the history of the English Bible,
etymological and lexicographical studies regarding Renaissance and
Reformation English and theological terms. It will also contain
reviews of important works touching the topics under consideration
by the Institute. It will be made available to libraries and patrons
only, not by subscription.
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 A
New Hearing for the Authorized Version
This is a brief introductory essay intended for both the layman
as well as specialist. It attempts to provide a critical instinct
for those who suffer, through no fault of their own, from a rather
complacent passivity and who have been taken captive by the advertising
slogans of the major publishers of contemporary language editions
of the English Bible.
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The Ecclesiastical Text
This is a collection of essays written by the Director of the Institute
over a period between 1987-1997 and published in journals both popular
and academic, while he was a doctoral candidate at the University
of Edinburgh. Some are popular, most are rather technical studies
treating translation philosophy, text criticism, the Protestant
orthodox dogmatic traditions of the seventeenth-century. It also
contains four important books reviews and two appendices. Some of
these essays first appeared in the early series of the Bulletin. |
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