New Testament Scholar Bruce Metzger Dies at 93

Posted on February 15, 2007 by David Mendez.
Categories: Ministry Watch, Books and Reviews, Religion, Theology.
A great loss of…"one of the great Christian statesmen and New Testament scholars of the last century."
 
From Christianity Today:
 
New Testament Scholar Bruce Metzger Dies at 93
Author, editor, and translator headed work on RSV, NRSV Bibles.
Tabby Yang | posted 2/15/2007 09:17AM
 
Bruce Metzger, an expert on Greek biblical manuscripts, died Tuesday at the age of 93. The professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary died of natural causes.
Born in 1914 in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Metzger was educated at Lebanon Valley College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Princeton University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Greek and Latin classics in 1942. In 1939, he was ordained in the Presbyterian Church.
At the time of his death, he was the George L. Collord professor emeritus of New Testament language and literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. Metzger taught in the New Testament department at Princeton for 46 years, beginning in 1938.
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Dr. BRUCE METZGER -

is professor Emeritus of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he taught for forty - six years. He was chairman of the New Revised Standard Version Bible Translation committee, and is past president of the Society of Biblical Literature, of the International Society for New Testament Studies, and of the North American Patristic Society. He is the author/editor of forty books. Over the years, Dr. Metzger has been invited to give academic lectures at more than one hundred colleges, seminaries, and universities in North America and South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, and South Africa.

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