by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Roman Catholic Oratorian in conflict with both Catholic and Protestant controversialists. Richard Simon was a French Oratorian priest whose critical histories of the Old Testament, New Testament text, versions, and commentators helped establish biblical...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Anglican origins followed by liberal academic theology in Britain and the United States. Kirsopp Lake was a British-American New Testament scholar who worked on manuscripts, photographed important codices, studied the Caesarean text hypothesis, and co-edited...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Jewish and Israeli academic biblical scholarship. Emanuel Tov is a Dutch-born Israeli scholar of the Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and served as editor-in-chief of the international Dead Sea...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: English evangelical and Plymouth Brethren associations. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles was an English biblical scholar and manuscript collator who produced a critically edited Greek New Testament after extensive travel and direct work with witnesses. He also wrote...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German and American university biblical scholarship; son of Protestant missionaries. David Trobisch is a German biblical scholar known for studying manuscript paratext, the Pauline letter collection, and the publication history of the New Testament. He has...
