by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant scholarship and Württemberg Bible work. Eberhard Nestle was a German orientalist and biblical scholar whose 1898 Novum Testamentum Graece compared the editions of Tischendorf, Westcott-Hort, and initially Richard Francis Weymouth, later...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant critical-edition scholarship. Erwin Nestle continued his father Eberhard’s Novum Testamentum Graece and assumed editorial responsibility across many editions. He expanded the apparatus, incorporated manuscript evidence more directly,...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Privately anti-Trinitarian within post-Reformation England; he did not publish his most heterodox theological writings during his lifetime. Isaac Newton is best known for mathematics and natural philosophy, but he also devoted enormous private labour to...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: British university biblical scholarship. David C. Parker is a British scholar of New Testament manuscripts, palaeography, and digital editing. At the University of Birmingham he founded the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing and led work...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Halle university theology in the German Enlightenment. Johann Salomo Semler was a German theologian often associated with the rise of historical criticism and a historically differentiated canon. He argued that the books of Scripture and their ecclesiastical...
