One reader suggested Pickering, and I am reading that author daily (the three Pickering books I bought). Next the Lutheran Librarian Alec Satin sent me books to use and to share with others. Finally, I checked in at Alibris - and like "Ring of Fire" - Bound by wild desire, I fell into a ring of fire. I found way too many books and began dropping choices.
One constant in text and translation issues is Bruce Metzger, Princeton University. Graduating from seminary, I wanted to study under Metzger. He survived my escape to New Haven, but he remains a primary author, often quoted. I am looking forward to reading his books since he went over to the paraphrase illusions.
Real scholarship means looking carefully at the opposition, not denying that the opposition exists. Jim Heiser only faintly remembers reading and selling Thy Strong Word in 2000 and realizing what Objective Justification really means. Of course he moved the epiphany date up to 2013 or so, to claim the revelation came from Rydecki. Both must have been shell-shocked in 2000 to have set up a scenario where Rydecki suddenly revealed the ugly truth of OJ to a panicked bishop.
People think - and professors teach - that the best minds detest the Majority or Byzantine text used for the King James Version of the New Testament. However, the facts say otherwise.
The errors and omissions loved by the modernist scholars really come from the heretics of the first 200 years or so changing and corrupting the text. That is why the Westcott-Hort-Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament is the Minority Text -
- patched together,
- corrupted,
- erased where convenient,
- an invented bad text.
- was only a man,
- a good teacher,
- who died and never performed any miracles,
- because there is no Trinity - it was invented at Chalcedon 500 years later.
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| Princeton's Clyde Manschrek wrote the bio of Melanchthon I read long ago and bought again. |
