by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: British Anglican and public scholarly setting. Frederic George Kenyon was a British palaeographer, papyrologist, biblical manuscript scholar, and director of the British Museum. He published important papyri, explained manuscript discoveries to broad...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant university theology. Rudolf Kittel was a German Old Testament scholar and the founding editor of Biblia Hebraica. Early editions used the Second Rabbinic Bible as base; the third edition shifted to the Leningrad Codex, a decision that shaped...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Dutch academic textual criticism. Jan Krans is a Dutch textual critic known for research on the editorial practices of Erasmus, Stephanus, Beza, and the history of the Textus Receptus. His work on conjectural emendation and the New Testament Virtual...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German classical and university philology. Karl Lachmann was a classical and German philologist whose New Testament editions became symbolic of a deliberate break with the Textus Receptus. His goal was not the autograph in a simple sense but a text associated...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Roman Catholic Jesuit scholarship and episcopal ministry. Carlo Maria Martini was an Italian Jesuit biblical scholar who became Archbishop of Milan and a cardinal. Before his episcopal ministry he worked in New Testament textual criticism and served on the...
