[B-Greek] Bruce Metzger has died
Eric Weiss
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Thu Feb 15 09:21:45 EST 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/15/america/NA-GEN-US-Obit-Bruce-Metzger.php
Bruce Metzger, authority on biblical manuscripts, dies at 93
The Associated Press
Thursday, February 15, 2007
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PRINCETON, New Jersey
Bruce Manning Metzger, professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and an
authority on Greek manuscripts of the Bible, has died. He was 93.
Metzger died Tuesday of natural causes, according to The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home in
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.
Metzger 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. In 1994, he was awarded the F.C. Burkitt Medal by the British Academy for
his contributions to biblical studies.
Eric S. Weiss
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