by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Württemberg Lutheran Pietism. Johann Albrecht Bengel was a Lutheran Pietist scholar, pastor, commentator, and Greek New Testament editor. His 1734 edition advanced the classification of manuscripts and the use of internal canons, including the preference for...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Church of England; Caroline Anglican rather than confessional Presbyterian or Baptist Reformed. John Cosin was an English churchman, liturgical scholar, royalist exile, and later Bishop of Durham. His long Scholastical History of the Canon assembled biblical,...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Italian Roman Catholic oriental scholarship. Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi was an Italian Hebraist and bibliographer whose collections and collations enlarged knowledge of Hebrew manuscripts and rare printed editions. His Variae lectiones supplemented and...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Independent English-speaking textual scholarship; not a confessional Reformed church theologian. Herman Charles Hoskier was a textual scholar known for exact collations of New Testament manuscripts, especially in Revelation, and for sustained criticism of...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Church of England and Oxford scholarship. Benjamin Kennicott was an Oxford Hebraist who organized a large international project to collate Hebrew manuscripts and early editions of the Old Testament. The resulting two-volume Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum...
