The Origin of the Bible
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Many books have been written about the Bible, but few explain its origins. This volume provides a fascinating overview of how the Bible was first inspired, canonized, read as sacred literature, copied in ancient Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, and eventually translated into the languages of the world. No other one-volume work can match this wealth of information about the historical development of the Bible, written by numerous noted theologians.
- Focuses on the Bible’s divine inspiration, lasting authority, and infallibility
- Essay on the Old Testament and New Testament apocrypha
- Elucidates the literary background of the Bible
- Describes the ancient biblical manuscripts that have been discovered and used in forming editions of the Hebrew and Greek texts
- Provides information about the biblical languages and Bible translation itself
- Harold O. J. Brown
- R. T. Beckwith
- F. F. Bruce
- Philip W. Comfort
- Raymond L. Elliot
- Milton C. Fisher
- R. K. Harrison
- Carl F. H. Henry
- Mark R. Norton
- J. I. Packer
- Leland Ryken
- Larry Walker
- Victor Walter
Philip W. Comfort (Ph.D., D. Litt. et Phil.) is a professor of Greek and New Testament at Trinity Episcopal Seminary, visiting professor at Wheaton College, and senior editor of Bible reference at Tyndale House Publishers. He completed his second doctorate under the noted textual critic Jacobus H. Petzer at the University of South Africa. Dr. Comfort has written articles for New Testament Studies, Tyndale Bulletin, Notes on Translation, and The Bible Translator and is the author of Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography and Textual Criticism in the Essentials for New Testament Greek Studies (3 volumes) and coauthor of the Holman Treasury of Key Bible Words in the Holman Reference Collection (11 volumes).
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