by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Church of England. Henry Alford was an Anglican clergyman, dean of Canterbury, hymn writer, and author of a widely used Greek Testament commentary. His edition brought nineteenth-century critical decisions into sustained English-language exposition for clergy...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant scholarship; ordained minister and participant in the Confessing Church before becoming a leading institutional editor of the modern critical Greek New Testament. Kurt Aland was a German church historian and New Testament textual critic...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant university scholarship with extensive work in church history, the Christian East, and New Testament textual criticism. Barbara Aland was a German church historian and textual critic who succeeded Kurt Aland as director of the Institute for...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Continental Reformed orthodoxy; active in Heidelberg and Leiden. Franciscus Junius the Elder was a French-born Reformed theologian, linguist, translator, and professor. He collaborated with Immanuel Tremellius on a major Latin Old Testament translation and...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Conservative evangelical research institute and church scholarship. Dirk Jongkind is a Dutch scholar of New Testament manuscripts and textual criticism based at Tyndale House in Cambridge. He produced a detailed study of the scribes and correctors of Codex...
