Bruce Metzger (cf. here and here) passed away on 13 February 2007. Although evangelicals do not agree with Metzger on some key areas, I am profoundly grateful for his work in textual criticism. Few are as gifted as he was.
Tributes:
- Darrell Bock‘s blog
- Michael Haykin‘s blog
- P. J. William‘s blog (See the comments section, too.)
- John Piper‘s blog
- Ben Witherington in Christianity Today
- Iain Torrance‘s message
- Princeton Theological Seminary
- Michael W. Holmes in SBL Forum
- Gordon Fee on the “Evangelical Textual Criticism” blog
- J. Keith Elliott in The Independent
- Daniel Wallace on Bible.org
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