Time Saving Tyndale House Toolbar

Take a look at the latest addition to the Tyndale Tech blog. FInd posted information about the new Tyndale Toolbar . It is a wonderful tool for doing research, especially biblical research. Download the toolbar here. The only toolbar that I have used, until now, is Google's. I have downloaded the Tyndale House toolbar and have been using it for a week or more. I recommend it. It is a great time saver.

Merry Christmas!

καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν καὶ ἐθεασάμεθα τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ δόξαν ὡς μονογενοῦς παρὰ πατρός πλήρης χάριτος καὶ ἀληθείας. . . . ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ πληρώματος αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς πάντες ἐλάβομεν καὶ χάριν ἀντὶ χάριτος. ὅτι ὁ νόμος διὰ Μωϋσέως ἐδόθη ἡ χάρις καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐγένετο.

And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us and we beheld his glory, glory as of the unique One from the Father, full of grace and truth. . . . For from his fullness we all received even grace in the place of grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Merry Christmas!

Tyndale Tech Moves to Blog Format Site

Recent correspondence from David Instone-Brewer, Senior Research Fellow in Rabbinics and the New Testament, Tyndale House, indicates the following.

"Tyndale Tech tries to keep you up to date with electronic resources for Biblical Studies.I've now moved it to a blog-style site where you can add your comments on the issues. All the old posts are there, and new ones will be posted there as well as appearing in email.This means you can add your wisdom on the various topics to share with other scholars.It also means you can hear about new posts using RSS as well as or instead of emails."

I am delighted with the news. Access to these helpful electronic biblical resources is now much easier. Find the tech materials here or here, integrated into the Tyndale House web pages.

ETS President, Francis Beckwith Resigns, Returns to Catholic Church

See the entry on my blog, Biblia Theologica, for the story.

Special Event at Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge

FACULTY OF DIVINITY

MARTIN HENGEL AT 80

Professor Hengel is respected internationally
as a leading Biblical scholar.
For many decades he has maintained a close link
with our University and Faculty,
and with many of our Biblical scholars.

Saturday 3 March 10.15 to 4.30
Venue – Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity.

At the one day conference in the Runcie Room
a set of short papers will interact with some of the many
strands in Professor Hengel’s scholarly work.

Speakers will include:

Andrew Chester
Peter Head
William Horbury
Larry Hurtado (Edinburgh)
Justin Meggitt Graham Stanton
Roland Deines (Tübingen &Nottingham)

Professor Hengel will contribute to the discussions, as will one of his most
distinguished former pupils, Professor Jörg Frey (Munich).

Coffee from 10 a.m. Buffet lunch (Selwyn College)

No charges!
All Welcome
Parking spaces available close to the
Faculty building, off West Road.
R.S.V.P.
If you plan to attend, please inform
Stephen Witmer in person in Cambridge,
or by e-mail: sw356@cam.ac.uk

Bruce M. Metzger Died February 13 (1914-2007)

Update: For a great sequence of tributes to Dr. Metzger, click here. Mike Holmes, a colleague in our close neighboring institution back home, has written the obituary for Metzger for the Society of Biblical Literature.

I find the following story ironic and strangely coincidental, if I may say this respectfully. On Tuesday, February 13, during our chapel here at Tyndale House, during the announcements time, a Greek New Testament was held up with a query as to whom it belonged. David Baker, who led the chapel service, noted that the GNT bore the signature of Bruce M. Metzger, surely a prize to whomever the testament belongs. Little did any of us know at the time that Bruce Metzger would die that day.

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Bruce Metzger, authority on biblical manuscripts, dies at 93

February 14, 2007, 2:04 PM EST

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Bruce Manning Metzger, professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and an authority on Greek manuscripts of the Bible, has died at age 93.

Metzger, who was born in Middletown, Pa., died Tuesday of natural causes, according to The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home Princeton.

At the time of his death, he was the George L. Collord Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary.

The son of Maurice and Anna Metzger, he earned a bachelor's degree from Lebanon Valley College in 1935, a bachelor of theology degree from Princeton Seminary in 1938 and a doctorate in classics from Princeton University in 1942. He became an ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church in 1939.

Metzger began his teaching career at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1938, where he stayed in the New Testament department for 46 years. During his time at the seminary, Metzger developed 25 courses on the English and Greek texts of books in the New Testament.

He was also involved with committees in the production of three new editions of the Scriptures: the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament (1966), the Reader's Digest condensed Bible (1982) and the New Revised Standard Version (1990).

In 1986, Metzger was elected to the American Philosophical Society in the class devoted to the Humanities and in 1994 he was awarded the F.C. Burkitt Medal by the British Academy for his contributions to biblical studies.

Metzger is survived by his wife of 62 years, Isobel Mackay Metzger, two sons and a sister. A memorial service is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 20, in Princeton.

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Read another account at the Home News Tribune.

See John Piper's Personal Tribute to Bruce Manning Metzger at the newly inaugurated Desiring God Blog.

HT: JT.

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I respectfully reserve comment for those who knew Professor Metzger personally. I knew him only through his works, and what significant works they are. My first introduction to him was in reading the UBS Greek New Testament while in college and then his Lexical Aids.