Church Conference on Textual Criticism Near Raleigh

This Saturday, Abidan Shah is hosting a conference at his church in Henderson, NC on the text of the New Testament. Abidan is a former PhD student of Maurice Robinson and wrote on the quest for the original text. He will be speaking along with myself, Maurice Robinson, and David Alan Black. John Meade and I spoke at Abidan’s church a few years ago and had a great time. I’m looking forward to being back. Come by if you’re in the area.

Details:

Date: Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022
Time: 9:00am–5:00pm
Location: Clearview Church in Henderson, NC (about an hour from downtown Raleigh)

Join us on Saturday, September 24, for this year’s apologetics conference at Clearview Church! This year will focus on New Testament Textual Criticism and will be led by Dr. Abidan Shah of Clearview Church, Dr. David Alan Black of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Maurice Robinson of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Dr. Peter Gurry of Phoenix Seminary.

You can learn more and get tickets here.

Update: Schedule

8:30–9:00 am, Coffee/Meet and Greet
9:00–10:00 am, Dr. Shah - The Current State of the Original Text of the New Testament
10:15–11:15 am,  Dr. Gurry - Reasoned Eclecticism and the Original Text
11:30–12:30 pm,  Dr. Robinson - A Byzantine-Priority Perspective Regarding the Recognition of Autograph Originality
12:20–1:30 pm, Lunch
1:30–2:30 pm, Dr. Black - Matthew 5:22 as a Possible Model of Recovering the Original Text
2:45–3:45 pm, Q&A
3:45–4:00 pm, Dr. Shah - Closing Remarks

Scribes & Scripture: A New Conference on the History of the Bible

It is about time co-blogger, Peter Gurry, and I announce another project we have been working on for the past few months: Scribes and Scripture: A Conference on the History of the Bible. You can read more about it on the website. Here, I want to announce our first mini-conference this Saturday 9:00-12:00 at Church on Mill in Tempe, AZ.

We have a couple of other conference possibilities that we are discussing with pastors in AZ and NC, and we will let you know the details of those as the time draws closer.

In short, Peter and I want to bring some of our expertise on the matters of OT and NT Text, Canon, and Bible Translation into churches that are seeking more understanding on how we received the Bible. Should be fun and informative!

Tyndale House and Bible and Church Conference

This week I was contacted by the librarian at Tyndale House. The Tyndale House Library wanted to purchase my commentary on Hebrews in Swedish! I have understood that the aim of this amazing library is to acquire all academic books about the Bible in all languages! This is no modest goal, but in order to achieve it, the Tyndale House ministry needs all support it can get.

Several of our blogmembers are affiliated to Tyndale House but they very seldom tell us about all the wonderful things that are going on all the time at Tyndale House, probably out of modesty. I for one would like to know more. Okay, not everything is immediately related to textual criticism, but I think practically all our readers have a general interest in Biblical Studies.

In any case, in the recent Tyndale House Newsletter we get to know about the plans for the next steps: the future expansion of the library and the increase to the ministry of Tyndale House. Central to these steps is to make the work more widely known, and therefore the Newsletter needs to be more widely distributed. So go here to subscribe. There you can also subscribe to the monthly e-News updates (latest eNews from March here). On the same page you can also read the latest issue (and earlier) of the Newsletter. There are nice pictures of our two Peters, Head and Williams. We are also reminded of the thirty minute documentary on "The Jesus Accounts" featuring Peter Head.

Another approaching major event organized by Tyndale House is the Bible and Church conference. This year, on Saturday June 12th, the three speakers (and ETC bloggers) Peter Williams, Dirk Jongkind and Simon Gathercole meet up again at St Helen's Bishopsgate in the heart of London to give three lectures: "Evidence of Eyewitnesses," "Evidence of Manuscripts," and "Evidence of History." It would be nice to have a comment or two about last year's conference. How did it go? Was it well attended? I have noted that one can order a DVD of the talks here.