Princeton Theological Seminary’s professor emeritus, Dr. Bruce Metzger, died at 93 yesterday. You can read more about Dr. Bruce Metzger here on the Princeton Seminary website’s announcement. For those who don’t know much about Metzger, you can check out his bio here on Wikipedia. He is probably most well-known for being the General Editor for the New Revised Standard Version. I remember walking past him on campus and in the library many times in Princeton. He will be very missed.
Bruce Manning Metzger, professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and an authority on Greek manuscripts of the Bible, has died at age 93. Metzger, who was born in Middletown, Pa., died Tuesday of natural causes, according to The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home Princeton.
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Missed, indeed.
A great biblical scholar is lost.
My prof Peter Davids told a great story about Metzger. He had a an urn on his desk that contained the ashes of an NRSV that had been burnt and mailed to him by some fundamentalist pastor. He would show it off with a twinkle his eye and call it a “great advance in Bible translation.” When the invariable puzzled answer would come, he would answer, “Today we’re burning the translation, but they used to burn the translator!”
He did a lot of good for God’s glory.
Great story about Dr. Metzger!
Dr. Bruce Metzger was the M. Th. mentor to Dr. Sydney Page, Seminary professor at Taylor Seminary, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.