Striving for the Unity of the Faith for the Glory of God ~ Eph. 4:3,13; Rom. 15:5-7

fundyreformed on January 9th, 2010

Today it is common to speak of four hundred thousand variants to the Greek New Testament. Agnostic scholars like Bart Ehrman, like to stoke the fires of public mistrust in the Bible by pointing out the “textual corruption” of the New Testament. Closer to home, “King James Version-Only” advocates like to emphasize the [...]

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fundyreformed on December 8th, 2009

Author: Daniel Doriani
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Format: hardcover
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9780875527857
Stars: 5 of 5
It’s hard to keep up with all of the new commentary series available these days. Critical, expository, application, practical, scholar’s, layman’s, preacher’s, everyman’s – commentaries come in all shapes and sizes. They also run the whole gamut of theological [...]

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Author: Barclay Newman (compiler)
Publisher: Hendrickson
Format: deluxe softcover
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 704
ISBN: 9783438051493
Stars: 5 of 5
The goal of many NT Greek students is to be able to read out of the Greek NT. This may be the only way proficiency in the language will be realized. The task of reading Greek is made much more [...]

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fundyreformed on August 6th, 2009

Author: Larry Helyer
Publisher: IVP
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 432
ISBN: 9780830828883
Stars: 4 of 5
My thanks go out to IVP Academic for supplying me with a review copy of this book. When I received The Witness of Jesus, Paul and John: An Exploration in Biblical Theology by Larry Helyer, I noticed the book looked like a college or seminary [...]

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fundyreformed on June 11th, 2009

Author: Philip W. Comfort
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 899
Publisher: Tyndale House
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781414310343
Rating: 5 of 5 stars
My thanks go out to Christy Wong at Tyndale House Publishers for supplying me with a review copy of Philip Comfort’s New Testament Text and Translation Commentary.
I have always been intrigued by textual criticism and the study of how we [...]

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fundyreformed on February 14th, 2009

In Testing the Textus Receptus posts, I test the claims of Textus Receptus (TR) Onlyism.  This is a moderate form of King James Onlyism focusing on the Greek (& Hebrew) basis for the King James Version.
As I mentioned earlier, Luke 2:22 is one of three passages that James White (author of The King James Only [...]

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fundyreformed on February 12th, 2009

Recently, James White debated Bart Ehrman, a former evangelical textual scholar turned agnostic on the reliability of the New Testament.  I am not necessarily a White fan, and I am not going to speculate as to who really won the debate.  What interests me has to do with White’s fielding some criticism from proponents of [...]

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