About this episode

Tim explores the manuscript history of the New Testament and its translation history in this final lecture of the series.

Making of the Bible E3 — The manuscript history of the New Testament is very different from that of the Old Testament. The number of manuscripts, the amount of time they cover, the history of manuscript discoveries—it’s all very complex and fascinating! Then there is the separate history of how the New Testament has been translated and regarded by the Church over the centuries. In this third and final lecture of the series, Tim explores this manuscript and its translation history, as well as the process and dynamics of how these books were collected into an official canon of Scripture. Tim gave these lectures in February 2012 at Blackhawk Church in Madison, Wisconsin.

Topics covered

• New Testament manuscripts
• English translations
• manuscript history
• Church history
• canon of Scripture

Keywords

• Bible
• manuscript discoveries
• translation history
• Blackhawk Church

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