Items of Interest June 13, 2011 Issue

Researchers document changes to new testament texts

Bruce Nolan

“Scholars chase Bible’s changes, one verse at a time” © 2011 Religion News Service. Used by permission. May 6, 2011

Working in a cluster of offices above a LifeWay Christian Bookstore, Bible scholars are buried in a 20-year project to codify the thousands of changes, verse by verse, word by word—even letter by letter—that crept into the early New Testament during hundreds of years of laborious hand-copying.

Their goal: to log them into the world’s first searchable, online database for serious Bible students and professional scholars who want to see how the document changed over time. . . . 

The first phase of the researchers’ work is done. They have documented thousands of creeping changes, down to an extraneous Greek letter, across hundreds of early manuscripts from the second through 15th centuries, said Bill Warren, the New Testament scholar who leads the project at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. 

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