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Bruce M. Metzger's Degrees

PhD New Testament and Early Christian Literature Princeton University
Masters New Testament and Early Christian Literature Princeton University
Bachelors Classical Languages Lebanon Valley College

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According to Wikipedia, Bruce Manning Metzger 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 1986.

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Bruce M. Metzger's Published Works

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A Textual Commentary of the Greek New Testament (1971) (305)
The Oxford companion to the Bible (1993) (236)
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (1967) (181)
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. A Companion Volume to the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament (1974) (156)
The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance (1987) (138)
The Text Of The New Testament (1964) (116)
The Early Versions of the New Testament. Their origin, Transmission and Limitations (1979) (104)
The Early Versions Of The New Testament (1977) (92)
The new Oxford annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books (1991) (59)
A Mandaic Dictionary (1963) (57)
The Oxford annotated Bible : with the Apocrypha (1965) (49)
The new Oxford annotated Bible with the Apocrypha : Revised standard version, containing the second edition of the New Testament and an expanded edition of the Apocrypha (1977) (48)
The text of the New Testament : its transmission, corruption, and restoration (1994) (46)
An Introduction to the Apocrypha (1957) (38)
Die Widersprüche zwischen den Evangelien : ihre polemische und apologetische Behandlung in der Alten Kirche bis zu Augustin (1973) (33)
The New Testament : Its Background, Growth, and Content (1965) (29)
Literary Forgeries and Canonical Pseudepigrapha (1972) (25)
Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Greek Palaeography (1984) (24)
The Cambridge History of the Bible: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day (1964) (21)
The Formulas Introducing Quotations of Scripture in the NT and the Mishnah (1951) (20)
The new Oxford annotated Bible with the Apocrypha : an ecumenical study Bible : Revised Standard Version (1973) (18)
An exegetical Grammar of the Greek New Testament (1941) (18)
The Oxford Annotated Bible (1963) (18)
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament: A Companion Volume to the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament (third edition) (1973) (17)
Historical and Literary Studies: Pagan, Jewish and Christian (1968) (16)
Ancient Astrological Geography and Acts 2:9-11 (1980) (15)
Early Versions of the New Testament, Manuscript Studies (1956) (14)
Seventy or Seventy-two Disciples? (1959) (14)
Chapters in the History of New Testament Textual Criticism (1963) (14)
New Testament Textual Criticism: Its Significance For Exegesis: Essays In Honour Of Bruce M. Metzger (1982) (12)
The Vita Christi of Ludolphus the Carthusian (1946) (12)
The making of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible (1991) (11)
The Formulas Introducing Quotations of Scripture in the New Testament and the Mishnah (1968) (11)
New Testament Studies: Philological, Versional, and Patristic (1980) (9)
Theories of the Translation Process (1993) (9)
Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek (1969) (9)
The Oxford Guide to People & Places of the Bible (2001) (9)
The Holy Bible : revised standard version containing the old and new testaments (1973) (8)
Considerations of Methodology in the Study of the Mystery Religions and Early Christianity (1955) (8)
Altlateinische Paulus-Handschriften (1965) (7)
The Punctuation of Rom. 9: 5 (1980) (7)
La Vetus Latina Hispana (1955) (7)
A Reconsideration of Certain Arguments Against the Pauline Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles (1958) (7)
The new Oxford annotated Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments (1991) (6)
Breaking the Code: Understanding the Book of Revelation (2006) (6)
GREEK LECTIONARIES AND A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT (1972) (6)
Persistent Problems Confronting Bible Translators (1993) (6)
Index to periodical literature on the Apostle Paul (1966) (5)
Explicit References in the Works of Origen to Variant Readings in New Testament Manuscripts (1968) (5)
Reminiscences of an Octogenarian (1995) (5)
The Gospel of John in Fayumic Coptic (P. Mich. Inv. 3521) (1963) (5)
The Geneva Bible of 1560 (1960) (5)
Names for the Nameless in the New Testament: A Study in the Growth of Christian Tradition (1980) (5)
The Oxford guide to ideas & issues of the Bible (2001) (5)
St. Jerome's Testimony concerning the Second Grade of Mithraic Initiation (1945) (4)
St. Jerome’s Explicit References to Variant Readings in Manuscripts of the New Testament (1980) (4)
Das Lukasevangelium saidisch: Text der Handschrift PPalau Rib. Inv.-Nr. 181 mit den Varianten der Handschrift M 569 (1974) (4)
The Nazareth Inscription Once Again (1980) (4)
New Testament Apocrypha; Volume One: Gospels and Related Writings, by Edgar Hennecke, Edited by Wilhelm Schneemelcher, English Translation Edited by R. McL. Wilson. 531 pp. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1963. $7.50 (1964) (4)
A Descriptive Checklist of Selected Manuscripts in the Monasteries of Mount Athos. . . . (1958) (4)
The Jehovah'S Witnesses and Jesus Christ (1953) (4)
When Did Scribes Begin to Use Writing Desks (1968) (4)
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments : translated from the original tongues, being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901, compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1952 (1962) (4)
The Caesarean Text of the Gospels (1945) (4)
The United Bible Societies Greek New Testament: An Evaluation@@@The Greek New Testament (1973) (4)
Manuscripts of the Greek Bible (1981) (4)
Historical and literary studies (1968) (4)
Roman State and Christian Church, a Collection of Legal Documents to A.D. 533, by P. R. Coleman-Norton. 3 vols. 1358 pp. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 91/2 guineas. In U.S.A., Alec R. Allenson, Naperville, Ill., $38.50 (postpaid $39.10) (1967) (4)
Methodology in the Study of the Mystery Religions and Early Christianity (1968) (3)
Paul's Vision of the Church: A Study of the Ephesian Letter (1949) (3)
: The Priority of Love (2002) (3)
A Comparison of the Palestinian Syriac Lectionary and the Greek Gospel Lectionary (1980) (3)
Trends in the Textual Criticism of the Iliad, the Mahabharata, and the New Testament (1946) (3)
The Saturday and Sunday Lessons from Luke in the Greek Gospel Lectionary (1944) (3)
Recently Published Greek Papyri of the New Testament (1947) (3)
A Greek and Aramaic Inscription Discovered at Armazi in Georgia (1956) (3)
Annotated bibliography of the textual criticism of the New Testament, 1914-1939 (1956) (3)
A SUGGESTION CONCERNING THE MEANING OF 1 COR. XV. 4b (1957) (3)
Einheit im Wort, Informationen, Gutachen, Dokumente zur Einheitsubersetzung der Heiligen Schrift (1982) (3)
A Magical Amulet for Curing Fever (1968) (2)
Index to periodical literature on Christ and the Gospels (1966) (2)
An annotated list of Armenian New Testament manuscripts (1961) (2)
The Text of Matthew 1.16 (1972) (2)
English Translations of the Bible, Today and Tomorrow (1993) (2)
The Georgian Version (1977) (2)
Lucian and the Lucianic Recension of the Greek Bible (1962) (2)
The Ending of the Gospel According to St. Mark in Ethiopic Manuscripts (1980) (2)
A Lexicon of Christian Iconography (1976) (2)
The Latin Versions (1977) (2)
Patristic Evidence and the Textual Criticism of the New Testament (1972) (2)
The text, canon, and principal versions of the Bible (1956) (2)
The Reader's Bible (1983) (2)
Oxford concise concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible (1962) (2)
The Third Edition of the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament@@@The Greek New Testament (1978) (2)
The Apocrypha of the Old Testament : Revised Standard Version (1965) (2)
Greek-English concordance to the New Testament : a tabular and statistical Greek-English concordance based on the King James version, with an English-to-Greek index (1955) (2)
Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie , herausgegeben von Wolfgang Braunfels; vol. 8, Ikonographie der Heiligen: Meletius bis zweiundvierzig Martyrer; Register. 644 cols., 310 ill., 21* pp. Rome, Freiburg, Basle, Vienna: Herder Verlag. DM 168. (1977) (2)
A Hitherto Neglected Early Fragment of the Epistle To Titus (1957) (1)
The New Testament View of the Church (1962) (1)
Three Learned Printers and Their Unsung Contributions to Biblical Scholarship (1952) (1)
Detailed List of the Greek Papyri of the New Testament (1949) (1)
Early Arabic Versions of the New Testament (1974) (1)
Recent Discoveries and Investigations of New Testament Manuscripts (1959) (1)
The Oxford Annotated Apocrypha, Expanded Edition Containing the Third and Fourth Books of the Maccabees and Psalms 151 (1978) (1)
History of New Testament Times, with an Introduction to the Apocrypha, by Robert H. Pfeiffer. 561 pp. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1949. $4.00 (1950) (1)
A Concordance to the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical books of the Revised Standard Version : derived from the Bible Data Bank of the Centre Informatique et Bible (Abbey of Maredsous) (1983) (1)
Book Review: Bible Translating: An Analysis of Principles and Procedures, with Special Reference to Aboriginal Languages (1950) (1)
NEW TESTAMENT TOOLS AND STUDIES (1997) (1)
The Lucianic Recension of the Greek Bible (1963) (1)
An Early Coptic Manuscript of the Gospel According to Matthew (1976) (1)
The Bodmer Papyrus of Luke and John (1962) (1)
Tatian's Diatessaron and a Persian Harmony of the Gospels (1950) (1)
The Greek New Testament, Edited by Kurt Aland, Matthew Black, Bruce M. Metzger, and Allen Wikgren. 920 pp. New York, American Bible Society, 1966. $1.95 (1967) (1)
The Coptic Versions (1977) (1)
The Armenian Version (1977) (1)
Review: Manuscripts of the Greek Bible. An Introduction to Greek Palaeography (1982) (1)
Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament (1968) (1)
Verzeichnis der Sigel fur Kirchenschriftsteller (Vetus Latina, 1/1) (1964) (1)
The United Bible Societies' Textual Commentary Evaluated@@@A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (1975) (1)
How Many Times Does ’EΠIOϒΣIOΣ Occur outside the Lord’s Prayer? (1968) (1)
Breaking The Code (1993) (1)
Paul and the Gnostics. By Walter Schemithals. Translated by John E. Steely. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1972. 279 pp. $9.00. (1972) (1)
The Influence of Codex Bezae upon the Geneva Bible of 1560 (1961) (1)
The Trial of Jesus; The Jewish and Roman Proceedings against Jesus Christ, Described and Assessed by Josef Blinzler. 312 pp. Westminster, Md., The Newman Press, 1959. $4.75 (1961) (1)
The Ethiopic Version (1977) (1)
The Practice of Textual Criticism Among the Church Fathers (1980) (1)
Some Curious Bibles (1995) (1)
Historical Studies on the Life of Paul (1970) (0)
Studies in the Gospels, Essays in Memory of R. H. Lightfoot, Edited by D. E. Nineham. 262 pp. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1955. 30 s (1956) (0)
Shorter Notices (1967) (0)
Books Received (1963) (0)
Critlcal Studies of the Pauline Literature (1970) (0)
A Survey of Recent Research on the Ancient Versions of the New Testament (1955) (0)
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE (1961) (0)
Vetus Latina (Erzabtei Beuron), 26/1: Epistulae Catholicae, 4te Lief., 1 Jo 1:1-3:17 (1966) (0)
Book Review:Celibacy, a Requirement for Admission to Baptism in the Early Syrian Church Arthur Voobus (1953) (0)
The Influence and Interpretation of Jesus Christ and the Gospels (1966) (0)
Book Review: Thinking About Religion (1949) (0)
Early Non-Canonical Literature related to Christ and the Gospels (1966) (0)
The Old Church Slavonic Version (1977) (0)
Letter to the Editor: A Text Restored (1975) (0)
Codex Bezae and the Geneva Version of the English Bible (1560) (1968) (0)
Michigan Manuscript 18 of the Gospels (1943) (0)
Index of articles on the New Testament and the early church published in Festschriften (1951) (0)
Notes of Recent Exposition (1966) (0)
Évangile de Pierre . Introduction, critical text, translation, commentary and index by M. G. Mara. Sources Chrétiennes, no. 201. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1973. 239 pp. f49. (1974) (0)
A Grammar of New Testament Greek, by James Hope Moulton: Volume III, Syntax, by Nigel Turner. 417 pp. Edinburgh, T. and T. Clark, 1963. 60s (1964) (0)
The English New Testament from Tyndale to the Revised Standard Version, by Luther A. Weigle. 158 pp. New York, The Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1949. $2.00 (1950) (0)
The Word Biblical Commentary on CD-ROM: 54 Volume Edition (1999) (0)
Lists of Words Occuring (sic) Frequently in the Coptic New Testament (Sahidic) (1962) (0)
Making sense of the book of Revelation (part 2) (1986) (0)
The Scrolls and the New Testament, Edited by Krister Stendahl. 308 pp. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1957. $4.00 (1958) (0)
Word biblical commentary : 54 volumes on CD-ROM : quick start guide (1999) (0)
Problems of New Testament Translation, by Edgar J. Goodspeed. 215 pp. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1945. $2.50 (1946) (0)
IV. Grammars of the Greek New Testament (1947) (0)
St. Mark's Gospel: A New Translation from the Greek (1953) (0)
THE PROCESSES AND STRUGGLES INVOLVED IN MAKING A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE (1990) (0)
Book Review: Stimulating Questions (1948) (0)
Ancient Antiogh, by Glanville Downey. 295 pp. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1963. $7.50 (1963) (0)
Book Review: A New Tool for Studying the Gospels (1984) (0)
Minor Western Versions (1977) (0)
Webster's new world Bible dictionary (1986) (0)
The Message of the New Testament, by Archibald M. Hunter. 122 pp. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1944. $1.00 (1945) (0)
Lists of words occurring frequently in the coptic New Testament(Sahidic dialect) (1961) (0)
Book Review: From a Third-Century Gnostic (1963) (0)
Book Review: Grounds for Ecumenicity (1949) (0)
Theological Studies concerning Jesus Christ and the Gospels (1966) (0)
The Readers' digest Bible : condensed from the Revised Standard Version Old and New Testaments (1982) (0)
Second Thoughts (1967) (0)
On the Citation of Variant Readings of Matt 1:16 (1958) (0)
Second Thoughts (1967) (0)
The Earliest Gospel, by Frederick C. Grant. (The Cole Lectures for 1943.) 270 pp. New York, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1943. $2.50 (1944) (0)
Die Handschriftenbestande der polnischen Bibliotheken, insbesondere an griechischen und lateinischen Handschriften von Autoren und Werken der klassischen bis zum Ende der patristischen Zeit (1958) (0)
The "Lost" Section of II Esdras (=IV Ezra) (1957) (0)
William Bowyer’s Contribution to New Testament Textual Criticism (1963) (0)
Principles and Problems of Biblical Translation: Some Reformation Controversies and Their Background. W. Schwarz (1956) (0)
EARLY ANTI-SEMITISM (1953) (0)
Early Biblical Interpretation By James L. Kugel and Rowan A. Greer Philadelphia, Westminster, 1986. 214 pp. $18.95 (1987) (0)
The Old Slavonic Version (1963) (0)
The Ascension of Jesus Christ (1968) (0)
Book Review: Independent Reconstruction (1954) (0)
Critical Studies of the Gospels (1966) (0)
Book Review: The Joy of Study; Papers on New Testament and Related Subjects Presented to Honor Frederick Clifton Grant (1952) (0)
A Christian Palestinian Syriac Horologion (Berlin MS. Or. Oct. 1019). Matthew Black (1955) (0)
The Old Slavic Version of the Gospel According to Luke (1954) (0)
Introductio generalis in sacram scripturam; Tractatus de inspiratione, canone, historia textus, hermeneutica (1959) (0)
Book Review: Methodological Weakness (1957) (0)
Bible Manuscripts and Editions (2011) (0)
Transitions in Biblical Scholarship, edited by J. Coert Rylaarsdam. 317 pp. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1968. $8.50 (1969) (0)
Recent Spanish Contributions to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament (1947) (0)
Anthology of Sermons (1950) (0)
New Testament Literature, 1947 (1948) (0)
Book Review: The Lord's Supper in the New Testament (1953) (0)
The Second Grade of Mithraic Initiation (1968) (0)
The Apostolic Age (1951) (0)
NRSV exhaustive concordance (1989) (0)
The Miracles of Jesus Christ as a Mode of Teaching (1956) (0)
Bibliographical Articles on Paul (1970) (0)
New Testament Literature, 1953 (1954) (0)
The History of the Interpretation of Paul and of his Work (1970) (0)
The RSV—Ecumenical Edition (1977) (0)
The Mother of Us All (1947) (0)
Das Leben-Jesu-Fragment; Papyrus Egerton 2 und seine Stellung in der urchristlichen Literaturgeschichte (1949) (0)
New Light from Old Manuscripts (1956) (0)
Recently Published Fragments of the Greek New Testament (1952) (0)
Methods and presuppositions of Biblcal research, or, Exegesis and hermeneutics as applied to the holy scriptures (2013) (0)
Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire, by Walter Woodburn Hyde. 296 pp. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1946. $4.00 (1947) (0)
The New Testament Text of St. Ambrose (1961) (0)
Introducing the New Testament, by Archibald M. Hunter. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 208 pp. Philadelphia, The Westminister Press, 1958. $3.00 (1959) (0)
The Syriac Versions (1977) (0)
The Pastoral Epistles, by Burton Scott Easton. 239 pp. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. $3.00 (1949) (0)
Minor Eastern Versions (1977) (0)
The Christianization of Nubia and the Old Nubian Version of the New Testament (1968) (0)
Book Review: And Now, Man, a Word for You (1970) (0)
Evangelism in the Early Church . By Michael Green. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1970. 349 pp. $6.95. (1971) (0)
THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH IN THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS Part I : The Meaning of hupakoe pisteos (2005) (0)
Der Brief an die Hebraer und das Corpus paulinum: Eine linguistische "Bruchstelle" im Codex Claromontanus (Paris, Bibliotheque nationale Grec 107 + 170A = 107B) und ihre Bedeutung im Rahmen von Text- und Kanongeschichte (1993) (0)
Wortschatzuntersuchungen zu den lateinischen Texten der Johannesbriefe (1960) (0)
An early protestant Bible containing the third Book of Maccabees With a List of Editions and Translations of Third Maccabees (1980) (0)
Book ReviewsCHURCH HISTORY (1957) (0)
Book Review: New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures (1964) (0)
PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION (1998) (0)
Trials of the Translator (1976) (0)
Bibliographical Articles on Christ and the Gospels (1966) (0)
A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts: Foreword by Bruce M. Metzger (2000) (0)
New Testament Studies (1981) (0)
The Gothic Version (1977) (0)
Introduction to the Bible (1959) (0)
Problems old and new in translating the Bible (1978) (0)
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety, by E. R. Dodds. 144 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1965. $5.50 (1968) (0)
Sermon on the Mount. Part 3 (1977) (0)
The Problematic Thracian Version of the Gospels (1980) (0)
Book Review: In Secular Dimensions (1947) (0)
Books Received (1967) (0)
The Acts of the Apostles; The Greek Text with Introduction and Commentary, by F. F. Bruce. 491 pp. London, The Tyndale Press, 1951. 25s (1953) (0)
Recent Trends in the Textual Criticism of the Iliad and the Māhabhārata (1963) (0)
Shorter Notices (1967) (0)
Book Review: The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible (1950) (0)
Historical Studies of the Life of Jesus (1966) (0)

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