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Bruce Metzger Passes Away
February 22, 2007 |
Bruce Metzger, Scholar and Bible Translator, Dies at 93: Bruce M. Metzger, an eminent scholar and translator of the Bible who oversaw the publication of a widely used modern edition that eliminated all the thees and thous and many of the hes, died on Tuesday in Princeton, N.J. He was 93 and a longtime Princeton resident.
At his death, Dr. Metzger was emeritus professor of New Testament language and literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he had taught for more than 40 years.
An ordained Presbyterian minister, Dr. Metzger was a world-renowned authority on translating the New Testament from the original Greek. He was best known to the general public for supervising the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, which uses contemporary English and does away with much of the exclusively masculine language of previous translations. Introduced in 1990, the New Revised Standard Version is used in several formats by many Protestants, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians.
As a scholar, Dr. Metzger was known in particular for his close textual studies of the New Testament and the Apocryphal literature, books that are not part of a recognized canon. He also wrote about the Bible as it was rendered by Eastern branches of the church — Greek, Slavonic, Georgian, Ethiopic, Syrian and Armenian — drawing on his command of ancient and modern languages. Besides Greek, Latin and Hebrew, Dr. Metzger knew Coptic, Syriac, Russian, German, Spanish, French and Dutch, among others.
Among his dozens of books are “The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission, and Limitations” (Clarendon, 1977); “Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Greek Palaeography” (Oxford University, 1981); “Breaking the Code: Understanding the Book of Revelation” (Abingdon, 1993); and “The Bible in Translation: Ancient and English Versions” (Baker Academic, 2001). With Michael D. Coogan, Dr. Metzger edited The Oxford Companion to the Bible, published in 1993.
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