Exploring My Strange Bible

Making of the Bible Part 3 - A History of New Testament Manuscripts and English Translations

Episode Summary

This is the third of a three part series on the making of the Bible, and we'll explore the manuscript history of the New Testament. . If you haven’t listened to the other two episodes, I recommend listening to those first.

Episode Notes

This last episode is about the manuscript history of the New Testament, as well as a short history of English translations. In the second half of this lecture, we talk about the process and the dynamics at work in collecting the books of the bible into the “canon," a technical term referring to the authoritative collection of the biblical books.