My Mentor Bruce Metzger and the Infamous Squirrel

July 10, 2021 NaN
My Mentor Bruce Metzger and the Infamous Squirrel
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My Mentor Bruce Metzger and the Infamous Squirrel

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Show Notes

I often get asked about my relationship with my Doktor Vater Bruce Metzger, an unbelievably knowledgeable textual scholar and Bible translator. In response I’ve started re-posting some recollections I have. I was his final PhD student and, I daresay, had a closer relationship with him than probably any other. In this post I talk about the most famous anecdote about him that floated around Princeton for decades. Read by Petra Ortiz

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