Authors and Books - Good and Bad – On the Greek New Testament
This list is very important, necessary for a better grasp
of these issues concerning the Bible and its accurate translation. They are in
order of importance, so the top ones are best to start. I buy used copies most
of the time, from Alibris. Other used sources are Amazon used books, Biblio,
and eBay. Watch and wait, because some very expensive books are offered for a
fraction of the price later. I got a $300+ book for $25 later.
Greek New Testaments
Stephanos – Majority Text – Good, also on Biblegateway.com
Westcott and Hort –
Horrible, with no explanations at all
United Bible Societies –
Horrible but lots of critical apparatus below
Bad Text Criticism – Acolytes of Tischendorf and Westcott and Hort
Bruce Metzger – The Text
of the New Testament, Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, 1964. Note
– “corruption” refers to the Majority Text.
Metzger, Reminiscences
of an Octogenarian, 1997
J. Harold Greenlee, Introduction
to New Testament Textual Criticism, 1995. Traditionalists are wrong because
they disagree with to bogus and fantastical Westcott-Hort theories! - circular
reasoning.
Kurt and Barbara Aland,
The Text of the New Testament, 1981. He continued the Westcott-Hort
argumentation, via Nestle, his mentor. The Nestle-Aland United Bible Society
edition has become the favorite of liberals, apostates, and Lutherans. The New
KJV constantly references NU in footnotes – for this Nestle-Aland-UBS edition –
and M for the Majority Text. Is this citing of NU any different from the RSV footnoting
Isaiah 7:10 – “or virgin?” RSV Isaiah 7:10 now reads – “a young woman will
conceive and bear a son.”
Good Text Criticism
Edward Freer Hills – The
King James Version Defended, 1988. Hills was a top Latin student at Yale,
studied for a doctorate at Chicago and was blocked by Metzger, then finished
his doctorate at Harvard. He tutored Theodore Letis, who is best appreciated
through his videos.
Wilbur N. Pickering, The
Identity of the New Testament Text, 2014. A layman pointed out Pickering to
me. As one person wrote, Pickering destroyed the entire modern argument against
the modernist, eclectic (invented) Greek text.
About Tischendorf
James Bentley, Secrets
of Mt. Sinai. The Story of the World’s Oldest Bible – Codex Sinaiticus,
1986. This is so hilariously worshipful that its thesis self-destructs. “Tischendorf
was obsessed…” Yes.
J. A. Moorman, Was
Codex Sinaiticus Written in 1840? 2018. Moorman is a KJV defender and the
author of many comparison books on the KJV.
Dr. Constantine
Tischendorf, Codex Sinaiticus. 1934.
YouTube - History
Education for KJB Believers - lecture by Chris Pinto, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4sx2WM-nsM
David W. Daniels, Who
Faked the “World’s Oldest Bible”? 2021. This book goes over the details of
Tischendorf’s life and travels, with an emphasis on explaining how a gift book
was turned into the oldest Bible, even though there are no traces of it, no record
of Sinaiticus until the mid-19th century.
Apologetic Books – In Defense of the Christian Faith
David Otis Fuller – He has at least three good books that
address key issues:
Which Bible? –
Essays on the KJV translators – learned men; Dean Burdon – by Edward F. Hills,
Modern criticism, Codex Vaticanus, the problems of Westcott-Hort theories.
True or False? –
Various Greek texts explained (Stephens, Tischendorf, etc), Burdon on The
Revision Revised. Pickering (above) on the contributions of Dean Burgon.
Counterfeit or Genuine? - The
Ending of Mark by Dean Burdon, Woman Caught in Adultery – Burdon, Preservation
of the Scriptures.
Gregory Jackson – Liberalism, Its Cause and Cure.The Poisoning of American Christianity and Its Cure. This is a review of how the 20th century Christian Church became apostate, fallen from faith.
