Bruce M. Metzger

Bruce Manning Metzger (February 9, 1914 – February 13, 2007) was an American biblical scholar, Bible translator and textual critic, a longtime professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor of the American Bible Society and United Bible Societies. He was a scholar of Greek, and New Testament textual criticism, and wrote prolifically on these subjects. Metzger was one of the most influential New Testament scholars of the 20th century.

Bruce M. Metzger
Born	Bruce Manning Metzger (1914-02-09)February 9, 1914 Pennsylvania
Died	February 13, 2007(2007-02-13) (aged 93) Princeton, New Jersey, US
Spouse	Isobel Metzger ​ (m. 1944)​
Academic background
Alma mater	Lebanon Valley College Princeton Theological Seminary
Thesis	Studies in a Greek Gospel Lectionary (Greg. 303) (1942)
Academic work
Institutions	Princeton Theological Seminary
Notable students	Michael J. Gorman, Bart D. Ehrman

Works

List of books

• Metzger, Bruce M. (1942). Studies in a Greek Gospel Lectionary (Greg. 303) (Ph.D.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1955). Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. OCLC 2132643.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1957). Introduction to the Apocrypha. New York: Oxford University Press. OCLC 361082.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1961). List of Words Occuring Frequently in the Coptic New Testament (Sahidic Dialect). Leiden: Brill. – note: "occuring" is misspelled in the published title
• Metzger, Bruce M.; Metzger, Isobel M. (1962). The Oxford Concise Concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible (1st ed.). London: Oxford University Press.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1963). Chapters in the History of New Testament Textual Criticism. New Testament Tools and Studies. Vol. 4. Leiden: Brill.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1964). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, And Restoration (1st ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1965). The New Testament: Its Background, Growth and Content (1st ed.). New York: Abingdon Press. ISBN 978-0-6872-7913-5. OCLC 341779.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1968). Historical and Literary Studies: Pagan, Jewish, and Christian. Leiden: Brill.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1977). The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission, and Limitations. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-1982-6170-4. OCLC 3155516.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1980). New Testament Studies: Philological, Versional, and Patristic. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9-004-06163-7.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1981). Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Palaeography. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-02924-6. OCLC 6943206.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1983). The Reader's Bible: condensed from the Revised Standard Version Old and New Testaments. Pleasantville, NY: Readers' Digest Association. ISBN 978-0-895-77106-3. OCLC 8817548.
• Metzger, Bruce M.; Denton, Robert C.; Harrelson, Walter (1991). The Making of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-802-80620-8.
• Metzger, Bruce M.; Coogan, Michael D., eds. (1993). The Oxford Companion to the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-04645-8. OCLC 27895183.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1994). Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament: a companion volume to the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament (third ed.). London ; New York: United Bible Societies. ISBN 978-3-438-06010-5. OCLC 683422.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1997). The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-198-26180-3. OCLC 14188714.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1997). Reminiscences of an Octogenarian. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 978-1-5656-3264-6.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1999). Breaking the Code: Understanding the Book of Revelation (Leader's ed.). Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. ISBN 978-0-6874-9779-9.
• Metzger, Bruce M.; Aland, Barbara; et al. (2000). Greek New Testament. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. ISBN 978-3-438-05110-3.
• Metzger, Bruce M.; Coogan, Michael D., eds. (2001). The Oxford Guide to People & Places of the Bible. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195146417. OCLC 45439956.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (2001). The Bible in Translation, Ancient and English Versions. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. ISBN 978-0-801-02282-1. OCLC 47100891.
• Metzger, Bruce M.; Coogan, Michael D., eds. (2002). The Oxford Essential Guide to Ideas and Issues of the Bible. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-14917-3. OCLC 47074788.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (2002). The New Testament: Its Background, Growth and Content (Reprint ed.). Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. ISBN 978-0-227-17025-0. OCLC 227928641.
• Metzger, Bruce M.; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, And Restoration (4th ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-516122-X.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (2006). Apostolic Letters of Faith, Hope, and Love: Galatians, 1 Peter, and 1 John. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. ISBN 978-1-5975-2501-5.

List of Translations

• Oxford Annotated Apocrypha: The Apocrypha of the Old Testament. Translated by Metzger, Bruce M. 1977.
• The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Revised Standard Version, Expanded Edition. Translated by Metzger, Bruce M.; May, Herbert G. 1977.
• Oxford Annotated Apocrypha: Revised Standard Version. Translated by Metzger, Bruce M. 1977.
• New Revised Standard Version. Translated by Metzger, Bruce M. 1989.
• The NRSV Bible with the Apocrypha, Compact Edition. Translated by Metzger, Bruce M. 2003.

Selected Articles and Chapters

• Metzger, Bruce M. (May 27, 1966). "The Meaning of Christ's Ascension". Christianity Today. 10 (17): 3–4.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1970). "Names for the Nameless in the New Testament: A Study in the Growth of Christian Tradition". In Granfield, Patrick; Jungmann, Josef A. (eds.). Kyriakon: Festschrift Johannes Quasten. Vol. 1. Münster: Verlag Aschendorff. pp. 79–99.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1972). "Patristic Evidence and Textual Criticism of the New Testament". New Testament Studies. 18 (4): 379–400. doi:10.1017/S0028688500023705. S2CID 170833089. - Presidential Address, Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, delivered August 24, 1971, at Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (1972). "Literary forgeries and canonical pseudepigrapha". Journal of Biblical Literature. 91 (1): 3–24. doi:10.2307/3262916. JSTOR 3262916. - Presidential address, Society of Biblical Literature, delivered October 29, 1971, in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Metzger, Bruce M. (November 1984). "How Well Do You Know the Apocrypha?". Guideposts. pp. 28–31.

Selected Interview and Writings about Bruce M. Metzger

• Minear, Paul S. (January 1983). "A Scholar's Scholar". Theology Today. 39 (4): 418–20. doi:10.1177/004057368303900411. S2CID 170746359.
• Strobel, Lee (1998). "the Second Interview: Bruce M. Metzger, PH.D.". The Case for Christ (2008 ed.). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. pp. 57–71. ISBN 978-0-310-29604-1.

Commemorative publications

• Epp, Eldon Jay; Fee, Gordon D., eds. (1981). New Testament Textual Criticism: Its Significance for Exegesis: Essays in Honour of Bruce M. Metzger. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-198-26175-9.
• Petzer, Jacobus H.; Hartin, Patrick J., eds. (1986). A South African Perspective on the New Testament, Essays by South African New Testament Scholars Presented to Bruce Manning Metzger during His Visit to South Africa in 1985. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9-004-07720-1.
• Ehrman, Bart D.; Holmes, Michael W., eds. (1989). The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-802-84824-6.

Other websites

• Obituary from Society of Biblical Literature
• Tribute from Ben Witherington
• Tribute from Daniel B. Wallace