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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 one of the most influential New Testament scholars of the 20th century. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1986.

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A Textual Commentary of the Greek New Testament (1971) (303)
The Oxford companion to the Bible (1993) (234)
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (1967) (180)
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. A Companion Volume to the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament (1974) (155)
The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance (1987) (137)
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)
An exegetical Grammar of the Greek New Testament (1941) (18)
The Oxford Annotated Bible (1963) (18)
The new Oxford annotated Bible with the Apocrypha : an ecumenical study Bible : Revised Standard Version (1973) (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)
Seventy or Seventy-two Disciples? (1959) (14)
Chapters in the History of New Testament Textual Criticism (1963) (14)
Early Versions of the New Testament, Manuscript Studies (1956) (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)
Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek (1969) (9)
Theories of the Translation Process (1993) (9)
New Testament Studies: Philological, Versional, and Patristic (1980) (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)
A Reconsideration of Certain Arguments Against the Pauline Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles (1958) (7)
La Vetus Latina Hispana (1955) (7)
The Punctuation of Rom. 9: 5 (1980) (7)
Altlateinische Paulus-Handschriften (1965) (7)
GREEK LECTIONARIES AND A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT (1972) (6)
The new Oxford annotated Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments (1991) (6)
Persistent Problems Confronting Bible Translators (1993) (6)
Breaking the Code: Understanding the Book of Revelation (2006) (6)
The Gospel of John in Fayumic Coptic (P. Mich. Inv. 3521) (1963) (5)
Index to periodical literature on the Apostle Paul (1966) (5)
The Geneva Bible of 1560 (1960) (5)
Reminiscences of an Octogenarian (1995) (5)
Explicit References in the Works of Origen to Variant Readings in New Testament Manuscripts (1968) (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)
A Descriptive Checklist of Selected Manuscripts in the Monasteries of Mount Athos. . . . (1958) (4)
Historical and literary studies (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)
St. Jerome's Testimony concerning the Second Grade of Mithraic Initiation (1945) (4)
The Nazareth Inscription Once Again (1980) (4)
When Did Scribes Begin to Use Writing Desks (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)
The Jehovah'S Witnesses and Jesus Christ (1953) (4)
Manuscripts of the Greek Bible (1981) (4)
St. Jerome’s Explicit References to Variant Readings in Manuscripts of the New Testament (1980) (4)
The Caesarean Text of the Gospels (1945) (4)
The United Bible Societies Greek New Testament: An Evaluation@@@The Greek New Testament (1973) (4)
Das Lukasevangelium saidisch: Text der Handschrift PPalau Rib. Inv.-Nr. 181 mit den Varianten der Handschrift M 569 (1974) (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)
Trends in the Textual Criticism of the Iliad, the Mahabharata, and the New Testament (1946) (3)
Annotated bibliography of the textual criticism of the New Testament, 1914-1939 (1956) (3)
A Greek and Aramaic Inscription Discovered at Armazi in Georgia (1956) (3)
Recently Published Greek Papyri of the New Testament (1947) (3)
Paul's Vision of the Church: A Study of the Ephesian Letter (1949) (3)
The Saturday and Sunday Lessons from Luke in the Greek Gospel Lectionary (1944) (3)
A SUGGESTION CONCERNING THE MEANING OF 1 COR. XV. 4b (1957) (3)
A Comparison of the Palestinian Syriac Lectionary and the Greek Gospel Lectionary (1980) (3)
Methodology in the Study of the Mystery Religions and Early Christianity (1968) (3)
Einheit im Wort, Informationen, Gutachen, Dokumente zur Einheitsubersetzung der Heiligen Schrift (1982) (3)
The text, canon, and principal versions of the Bible (1956) (2)
The Ending of the Gospel According to St. Mark in Ethiopic Manuscripts (1980) (2)
Index to periodical literature on Christ and the Gospels (1966) (2)
Patristic Evidence and the Textual Criticism of the New Testament (1972) (2)
: The Priority of Love (2002) (2)
The Reader's Bible (1983) (2)
Lucian and the Lucianic Recension of the Greek Bible (1962) (2)
An annotated list of Armenian New Testament manuscripts (1961) (2)
The Georgian Version (1977) (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 Magical Amulet for Curing Fever (1968) (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)
The Text of Matthew 1.16 (1972) (2)
A Lexicon of Christian Iconography (1976) (2)
The Latin Versions (1977) (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)
English Translations of the Bible, Today and Tomorrow (1993) (2)
The New Testament View of the Church (1962) (1)
The Practice of Textual Criticism Among the Church Fathers (1980) (1)
A Hitherto Neglected Early Fragment of the Epistle To Titus (1957) (1)
Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament (1968) (1)
Early Arabic Versions of the New Testament (1974) (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)
The Armenian Version (1977) (1)
The Lucianic Recension of the Greek Bible (1963) (1)
Recent Discoveries and Investigations of New Testament Manuscripts (1959) (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)
Three Learned Printers and Their Unsung Contributions to Biblical Scholarship (1952) (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)
An Early Coptic Manuscript of the Gospel According to Matthew (1976) (1)
Some Curious Bibles (1995) (1)
The Bodmer Papyrus of Luke and John (1962) (1)
The Ethiopic Version (1977) (1)
Paul and the Gnostics. By Walter Schemithals. Translated by John E. Steely. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1972. 279 pp. $9.00. (1972) (1)
Review: Manuscripts of the Greek Bible. An Introduction to Greek Palaeography (1982) (1)
The Coptic Versions (1977) (1)
NEW TESTAMENT TOOLS AND STUDIES (1997) (1)
Verzeichnis der Sigel fur Kirchenschriftsteller (Vetus Latina, 1/1) (1964) (1)
The Influence of Codex Bezae upon the Geneva Bible of 1560 (1961) (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)
The Oxford Annotated Apocrypha, Expanded Edition Containing the Third and Fourth Books of the Maccabees and Psalms 151 (1978) (1)
Tatian's Diatessaron and a Persian Harmony of the Gospels (1950) (1)
Breaking The Code (1993) (1)
How Many Times Does ’EΠIOϒΣIOΣ Occur outside the Lord’s Prayer? (1968) (1)
The United Bible Societies' Textual Commentary Evaluated@@@A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (1975) (1)
Detailed List of the Greek Papyri of the New Testament (1949) (1)
Bibliographical Articles on Paul (1970) (0)
THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH IN THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS Part I : The Meaning of hupakoe pisteos (2005) (0)
Book Review: In Secular Dimensions (1947) (0)
Introduction to the Bible (1959) (0)
Book Review:Celibacy, a Requirement for Admission to Baptism in the Early Syrian Church Arthur Voobus (1953) (0)
EARLY ANTI-SEMITISM (1953) (0)
Anthology of Sermons (1950) (0)
Book Review: And Now, Man, a Word for You (1970) (0)
Minor Western Versions (1977) (0)
Early Non-Canonical Literature related to Christ and the Gospels (1966) (0)
The Old Slavonic Version (1963) (0)
The Old Church Slavonic Version (1977) (0)
Book Review: Independent Reconstruction (1954) (0)
Das Leben-Jesu-Fragment; Papyrus Egerton 2 und seine Stellung in der urchristlichen Literaturgeschichte (1949) (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)
NRSV exhaustive concordance (1989) (0)
The Christianization of Nubia and the Old Nubian Version of the New Testament (1968) (0)
A Christian Palestinian Syriac Horologion (Berlin MS. Or. Oct. 1019). Matthew Black (1955) (0)
Problems old and new in translating the Bible (1978) (0)
Methods and presuppositions of Biblcal research, or, Exegesis and hermeneutics as applied to the holy scriptures (2013) (0)
St. Mark's Gospel: A New Translation from the Greek (1953) (0)
The "Lost" Section of II Esdras (=IV Ezra) (1957) (0)
Minor Eastern Versions (1977) (0)
The Apostolic Age (1951) (0)
The Word Biblical Commentary on CD-ROM: 54 Volume Edition (1999) (0)
Index of articles on the New Testament and the early church published in Festschriften (1951) (0)
Problems of New Testament Translation, by Edgar J. Goodspeed. 215 pp. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1945. $2.50 (1946) (0)
Recent Spanish Contributions to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament (1947) (0)
Book Review: New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures (1964) (0)
The Mother of Us All (1947) (0)
Webster's new world Bible dictionary (1986) (0)
Bibliographical Articles on Christ and 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)
Ancient Antiogh, by Glanville Downey. 295 pp. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1963. $7.50 (1963) (0)
Book Review: The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible (1950) (0)
Michigan Manuscript 18 of the Gospels (1943) (0)
New Light from Old Manuscripts (1956) (0)
Making sense of the book of Revelation (part 2) (1986) (0)
Principles and Problems of Biblical Translation: Some Reformation Controversies and Their Background. W. Schwarz (1956) (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)
Sermon on the Mount. Part 3 (1977) (0)
New Testament Literature, 1947 (1948) (0)
The Message of the New Testament, by Archibald M. Hunter. 122 pp. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1944. $1.00 (1945) (0)
Book Review: Thinking About Religion (1949) (0)
The Problematic Thracian Version of the Gospels (1980) (0)
William Bowyer’s Contribution to New Testament Textual Criticism (1963) (0)
Book Review: Grounds for Ecumenicity (1949) (0)
Books Received (1967) (0)
Book Review: Stimulating Questions (1948) (0)
Shorter Notices (1967) (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)
Theological Studies concerning Jesus Christ and the Gospels (1966) (0)
Book Review: A New Tool for Studying the Gospels (1984) (0)
An early protestant Bible containing the third Book of Maccabees With a List of Editions and Translations of Third Maccabees (1980) (0)
Historical Studies of the Life of Jesus (1966) (0)
IV. Grammars of the Greek New Testament (1947) (0)
Shorter Notices (1967) (0)
THE PROCESSES AND STRUGGLES INVOLVED IN MAKING A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE (1990) (0)
The New Testament Text of St. Ambrose (1961) (0)
Critical Studies of the Gospels (1966) (0)
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE (1961) (0)
Historical Studies on the Life of Paul (1970) (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)
PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION (1998) (0)
Notes of Recent Exposition (1966) (0)
Wortschatzuntersuchungen zu den lateinischen Texten der Johannesbriefe (1960) (0)
The Readers' digest Bible : condensed from the Revised Standard Version Old and New Testaments (1982) (0)
The Gothic Version (1977) (0)
Codex Bezae and the Geneva Version of the English Bible (1560) (1968) (0)
New Testament Studies (1981) (0)
A Survey of Recent Research on the Ancient Versions of the New Testament (1955) (0)
Recent Trends in the Textual Criticism of the Iliad and the Māhabhārata (1963) (0)
Book ReviewsCHURCH HISTORY (1957) (0)
The Scrolls and the New Testament, Edited by Krister Stendahl. 308 pp. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1957. $4.00 (1958) (0)
The History of the Interpretation of Paul and of his Work (1970) (0)
A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts: Foreword by Bruce M. Metzger (2000) (0)
The Influence and Interpretation of Jesus Christ and the Gospels (1966) (0)
Evangelism in the Early Church . By Michael Green. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1970. 349 pp. $6.95. (1971) (0)
Recently Published Fragments of the Greek New Testament (1952) (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)
Second Thoughts (1967) (0)
The Second Grade of Mithraic Initiation (1968) (0)
The Syriac Versions (1977) (0)
New Testament Literature, 1953 (1954) (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)
Trials of the Translator (1976) (0)
On the Citation of Variant Readings of Matt 1:16 (1958) (0)
Books Received (1963) (0)
Second Thoughts (1967) (0)
Word biblical commentary : 54 volumes on CD-ROM : quick start guide (1999) (0)
Letter to the Editor: A Text Restored (1975) (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 Pastoral Epistles, by Burton Scott Easton. 239 pp. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. $3.00 (1949) (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)
Critlcal Studies of the Pauline Literature (1970) (0)
The Miracles of Jesus Christ as a Mode of Teaching (1956) (0)
Transitions in Biblical Scholarship, edited by J. Coert Rylaarsdam. 317 pp. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1968. $8.50 (1969) (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)
Bible Manuscripts and Editions (2011) (0)
The Ascension of Jesus Christ (1968) (0)
The Old Slavic Version of the Gospel According to Luke (1954) (0)
Lists of words occurring frequently in the coptic New Testament(Sahidic dialect) (1961) (0)
Book Review: The Lord's Supper in the New Testament (1953) (0)
Introductio generalis in sacram scripturam; Tractatus de inspiratione, canone, historia textus, hermeneutica (1959) (0)
Book Review: From a Third-Century Gnostic (1963) (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)
Lists of Words Occuring (sic) Frequently in the Coptic New Testament (Sahidic) (1962) (0)
The RSV—Ecumenical Edition (1977) (0)
Book Review: Methodological Weakness (1957) (0)
Early Biblical Interpretation By James L. Kugel and Rowan A. Greer Philadelphia, Westminster, 1986. 214 pp. $18.95 (1987) (0)
Vetus Latina (Erzabtei Beuron), 26/1: Epistulae Catholicae, 4te Lief., 1 Jo 1:1-3:17 (1966) (0)

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