by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Church of England and Oxford scholarship. John Mill was an Oxford scholar and Anglican clergyman whose 1707 Greek New Testament gathered variant evidence accumulated over decades. The text above the apparatus largely retained the Stephanus form, while the...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: American evangelical Baptist missions and interconfessional Bible-society translation work. Eugene Albert Nida was an American linguist and Bible-society leader whose theory of dynamic, later functional, equivalence transformed twentieth-century translation...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Nineteenth-century Anglican scholarship. F. H. A. Scrivener was an Anglican clergyman and one of the nineteenth century’s most exact New Testament collators. He edited Greek texts, described manuscripts, served on the English New Testament Revision...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Northern Renaissance Catholic humanism; never joined the Protestant Reformation. Desiderius Erasmus was the leading northern Christian humanist of the early sixteenth century. His 1516 Novum Instrumentum placed a printed Greek New Testament beside a revised...
