![]() ![]() And then when I got to Bible college, I learned more and I learned that behind my Greek New Testament, there were thousands of Greek hand copied manuscripts, and that there was a process to get from those manuscripts to my printed Greek New Testament, and then from there to my English Bible So I was fascinated by the process of how we got from the Greek New Testament to my English Bible. I was really fascinated by the fact that there was something behind my English Bible in the Greek New Testament. Actually I took four years of Greek in high school. So I got into it because I had the privilege of getting to take a Greek course in high school, so a New Testament Greek course. Peter Gurry: Yeah, that's a great question. What is textual criticism? What is it? And maybe even before you answer what is it, how did you get interested in doing this personally and professionally? Sean McDowell: Let me just start off by asking you the question. So thanks for coming on and for joining us today. So it's really a gift to the church that you've brought to us, Peter. This book is a correction to a lot of the mistakes that have been made, well-intended by apologists in defending the scripture. Peter Gurry, who is an assistant professor of New Testament, and co-director of the Text & Canon Institute at Phoenix Seminary, who is the co-editor of a fascinating, and I would say very, very important new book called Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism. I'm your host, Sean McDowell, professor of Apologetics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. Sean McDowell: Welcome to the podcast, Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith and Culture. He is known to enjoy cheap fast food, good typography, and Jack London stories. He and his wife are members at Whitton Avenue Bible Church. He has presented his work at the Society of Biblical Literature, the Evangelical Theological Society, and the British New Testament Conference among others. ![]() His research interests range across Greek grammar, the history and formation of the Bible, and the history of New Testament scholarship. Peter Gurry joined the Phoenix Seminary faculty in 2017 and teaches courses in Greek Language and New Testament literature.
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