More On Bruce Metzger and Me: How I Got Interested in my Dissertation Topic

This post resumes my recollections of my interactions with Bruce Metzger, my mentor. Remember: when I say “textual criticism” in this post, I am NOT referring simply to the “study of texts.” Textual criticism is the technical term used by scholars (in all fields) to refer to how we establish what an author wrote if we don’t have his/her original writing itself. For the New Testament that involves studying ancient Greek manuscripts and other sources; since all the surviving sources word the NT in different ways — usually completely insignificant ways, but sometimes important — we need to figure out what the “originals” said and how scribes changed them. That’s “textual criticism.” Read by Petra Ortiz