Are the New Testament Manuscripts Reliable w/ Dr. Craig Blomberg

Craig Blomberg is one of the most highly respected evangelical scholars in the United States. He has authored fifteen books as well as co-authored/edited ten more, with over 150 journal articles to his credit. A Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado, Craig also serves on the Committee on Bible Translation for the New International Version.

00:00 Introduction
00:54 What is textual criticism?
03:03 Deliberate scribal alterations
04:05 What are the earliest New Testament manuscripts?
06:32 Did recent discoveries change the view of scholarship?
08:12 Do the differences in variants change doctrine?
09:36 The Johannine Comma and the Vulgate
10:58 The ending of Mark
11:53 How can we be confident the manuscripts reflect the originals?
14:30 What is considered an "original"?
16:10 The case for Byzantine priority and the woman caught in adultery
25:12 Balancing internal vs. external evidence
35:01 The Orthodox corruption of Scripture and Bart Ehrman
41:14 Jude 5 and high Christology
45:10 Conjectural emendations
48:02 Dating manuscripts
51:51 Resolving apparent contradictions in the Gospels
1:01:25 Dating the Gospels
1:11:53 The problem of pseudepigraphy in the New Testament
1:18:53 Audience Q&A

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