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Bruce Manning Metzger (9 February , Middletown, Pennsylvania – 13 February , Princeton, New Jersey) was a critic of the King James Bible and spent years attempting to discredit it, whilest promoting new versions based on Westcott and Hort type Greek texts.

Biography

Metzger earned his BA at Lebanon Valley College in , then entered Princeton Theological Seminary to gain his ThB in He stayed at Princeton as a Teaching Fellow in New Testament Greek. The following year, he was ordained in the United Presbyterian Church. In , he earned his MA from Princeton University and became an Instructor in New Testament. Two years later, he earned his PhD, also from Princeton.

In , Metzger married Isobel Elizabeth Mackay, daughter of the third president of the Seminary, John A. Mackay. That same year, he was promoted to Assistant Professor. In , he became Associate Professor, and full Professor in In , Metzger was named the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature. In , he was elected president of both the Studiorum Novi Testimenti Societas and the International Society of Biblical Literature. The following year, he became president of the North American Patristic Society. Metzger was visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge in and Wolfson College, Oxford in At the age of seventy, he retired as Professor Emeritus. In , Bruce Metzger was honoured with the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Lebanon Valley College, Findlay College, University of St Andrews, the University of Münster and Potchefstroom University.

Shortly after his 93rd birthday, Metzger died. He was survived by his wife Isobel and their two sons, John Mackay Metzger and James Bruce Metzger.

Compromise and Apostasy

Metzger continuously sought after an ecumenical bible, accepted by the Eastern Orthodox Churches, Roman Catholics,

Bruce M. Metzger (–)

(Published in BAR, May/June )

Bruce Manning Metzger, the quintessential Presbyterian elder, scholar and gentleman, was one of the foremost New Testament textual critics of the 20th century. He was a major contributor to our understanding of the history of formation of the New Testament canon, an influential translator of the Biblical text and an insightful interpreter of the New Testament for modern times.

Metzger graduated from Lebanon Valley College in and from Princeton Theological Seminary in ; he then earned a master’s degree in and a Ph.D. in in classics at Princeton University. When Metzger graduated from Princeton Seminary, he joined the faculty and ultimately served there for 46 years, the last 30 as professor of New Testament, before retiring in In Metzger married Isobel Elizabeth Mackay, the daughter of the seminary president.

Metzger’s scholarship was flawless. While one might disagree with his conclusions on this or that issue, one would be hard put to find fault in the mass of evidence he accumulated in the fields in which he worked. His expert knowledge of the many languages necessary to do textual criticism attracted the respect of all his colleagues.

He became closely acquainted with the most esoteric witnesses to the New Testament text. When the United Bible Societies formed the Greek New Testament Project in , Metzger was chosen to work with an international team of five prominent scholars. Beginning in the team produced a series of editions of the Greek New Testament that are used by scholars the world over and by the more-than translation committees that the United Bible Societies sponsor around the world.

Metzger is best known outside scholarship as a Bible translator. As a young scholar he worked on the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, and in he compiled a concordance for it with Isobel Metzger (his wife). He served as chair

American biblical scholar (–)

Bruce Manning Metzger (February 9, – February 13, ) was an American biblical scholar, Bible translator and textual critic who was a longtime professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor who served on the board of the American Bible Society and United Bible Societies. He was a scholar of Greek, New Testament, and New Testament textual criticism, and wrote prolifically on these subjects. Metzger was an influential New Testament scholar of the 20th century. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in

Biography

Metzger was born on February 9, , in Middletown, Pennsylvania, and earned his BA () at Lebanon Valley College. Metzger had strong academic training in Greek before enrolling in Princeton Seminary, and in the summer prior to entering the Seminary, he completed reading through the entire Bible consecutively for the twelfth time. He received his ThB in at Princeton Theological Seminary, and in the autumn of began teaching at Princeton as a Teaching Fellow in New Testament Greek. On April 11, , he was ordained in the United Presbyterian Church of North America, which has since merged with the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) and is now known as

Bruce M. Metzger () was a professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor who served on the board of the American Bible Society. He was a world-class scholar of Greek, New Testament and Old Testament Bible, and wrote prolifically on these subjects.

Metzger was born in Middletown, Pennsylvania in He earned his BA at Lebanon Valley College in , and then entered Princeton Theological Seminary, gaining his ThB in He stayed on at Princeton as Teaching Fellow in New Testament Greek. The following year, he was ordained in the United Presbyterian Church. In , he earned his MA and became Instructor in New Testament. Two years later, Metzger completed his PhD, also at Princeton Seminary.

In , Metzger married Isobel Elizabeth Mackay, daughter of the third president of the Seminary, Alexander Mackay. That same year, he was promoted to Assistant Professor. By , he was associate professor, and became full professor in In , Metzger's chair was named George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature.

In , Metzger was elected president of both the Studiorum Novi Testimenti Societas and the International Society of Biblical Literature. The following year, he became the first president of the North American Patristic Society. Metzger was visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in and at Wolfson College, Oxford, in He retired from teaching in

In , Bruce Metzger was honoured with the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Lebanon Valley College, Findlay College, University of St Andrews, the University of Münster, and Potchefstroom University.

Metzger edited and provided commentary for many Bible translations and wrote dozens of books. He was one of the editors of the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament, the starting point for nearly all translations of the New Testament in recent decades. He is noted for his work on the Revised Standard Version, the Reader's Digest Bi