Bible and Textual Criticism
Class: The Historical Reliability of the Gospels (free. about 15hrs)
An in-depth look at the charges against the historicity of the gospels, and the evangelical answers.
Dr. Craig Blomberg
Dr. Craig Blomberg is Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado. He holds the B.A. from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois (with majors in Biblical Studies, Spanish, and Math), the M.A. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and the Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
He is a member of the Committee on Bible Translation for the New International Version and of the committee tasked with producing the 35th-anniversary edition of the NIV Study Bible, to be released in 2020.
https://www.biblicaltraining.org/historical-reliability-gospels/craig-blomberg
Daniel B. Wallace has taught Greek and New Testament courses on a graduate school level since 1979. He has a Ph.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary, and is currently professor of New Testament Studies at his alma mater.
His Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament (Zondervan, 1996) has become a standard textbook in colleges and seminaries. He is the senior New Testament editor of the NET Bible. Dr. Wallace is also the Executive Director for the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.
Class: The History of the English Bible by Dr. Daniel Wallace (Free. 3hrs)
This short class covers the history of the English Bible from the time of Wycliffe to the present day. The four lectures are just over two hours total. These lectures were given as a part of the Staley Lecture Series at Lancaster Bible College.
1. From Wycliffe to King James (The Period of Challenge)
2. The Reign of the King James (The Era of Elegance)
3. From the KJV to the RV (from Elegance to Accuracy)
4. Why So Many Versions?
https://bible.org/series/history-english-bible
https://www.biblicaltraining.org/seminar/history-english-bible/daniel-wallace
Inspiration, Preservation, and New Testament Textual Criticism
https://bible.org/article/inspiration-preservation-and-new-testament-textual-criticism
Class: Textual Criticism (free. 18hrs)
Dr. Daniel Wallace is one of the world's leading textual critics. His ministry, the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM.org) is currently the most prolific organization for discovering, photographing, and cataloging ancient Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. In this class, he discusses the issues of textual variants, how ancient manuscripts were made, the types of errors that we can see in the manuscripts, the issue of the Textus Receptus and its role in the King James translation of the Bible, the historic work of Westcott and Hort, and ends with discussions of the most famous textual problems.
https://www.biblicaltraining.org/textual-criticism/daniel-wallace
https://bible.org/topics/357/Textual%20Criticism
Class: Why We Trust Our Bible (free class. 20hrs)
About this Class
The uniqueness and authority of the Bible are always under attack. Professors and writers are claiming that Jesus never existed, Jesus never claimed to be God, the early church changed the basic preaching of Jesus, books were left out of the Bible, the copies of the Bible that have come down through the centuries are hopelessly corrupt, and how can you trust your translation where there are so many? This class walks you through the process of how we received our Bible and why we can trust it.
Dr. Darrell Bock discusses the life of Jesus in lectures 1-5. Dr. Blomberg discusses the reliability of the Bible in lectures 6-11. Dr. Kruger discusses the process of formation of the New Testament Canon in lectures 12-21. Dr. Wallaces discusses issues relating to manuscripts and textual criticism in lectures 22-27. Dr. Mounce discusses the philosophies and process of translation in lectures 28-32. Dr. Piper discusses the content, cohesiveness, scope and power of the Bible in lectures 33-37.
https://www.biblicaltraining.org/why-we-trust-our-bible/team-taught
Dr. Wallaces discusses issues relating to manuscripts and textual criticism in lectures 22-27
Lecture 22
In Part 1, Dr. Daniel Wallace addresses the challenges to the believability of the Bible brought by the issues related to the Greek manuscripts, and especially the influence of Dan Brown and Bart Ehrman.
Lecture 23
In Part 2, Dr. Daniel Wallace addresses discussion of the historical process that led to manuscripts and variants, with some examples of variants.
Lecture 24
In Part 3, Dr. Daniel Wallace responds to three basic challenges by Bart Ehrman: the "black hole"; the quality of the copies; the effect of Constantine on the manuscripts.
Lecture 25
In Part 4, Dr. Daniel Wallace addresses how now that we understand why there are variants in the manuscripts, how does the art and science of textual criticism help us determine which variants are most likely to be original?
Lecture 26
Greek Manuscripts behind the KJV
In Part 5, Dr. Daniel Wallace addresses a brief overview of why the King James Bible is different from all modern translations, and issues of the Greek texts behind it.
Lecture 27
Why do we have so many variants?
In Part 6, Dr. Daniel Wallace focuses in on variants, how many there are, how many significant variants are there, and how good of a job has textual criticism done.