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How We Got the Bible
Neil R. Lightfoot

080101252X Retail Price: $19.99
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Format: Hardcover, 224pp.
ISBN: 080101252X
Publisher: Baker Book House
Pub. Date: 3rd edition June 2003

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A factual account of how the Bible has been preserved and handed down to our generation, including discussions on recent Bible translations. This book, a profitable study of the various translations of the Bible, is necessary to understand the heritage and orgins of varying versions.

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A tool which deserves its place in the equipment of the Bible student.... The Style is simple, lucid, nontechnical. The college neophyte in this subject will find it not only readable, but interesting.
—R. D. Congdon, Biliotheca Sacra
 
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Neil R. Lightfoot is Frank Pack Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Abilene Christian University. He is a graduate of Baylor University and received his doctorate from Duke University.

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Table of Contents

Preface9
1The Making of Ancient Books13
2The Birth of the Bible23
3Manuscripts and the New Testaments35
4Other Manuscripts and New Testament Witnesses47
5The Text of the New Testament59
6Significance of Textual Variations67
7Restoring the New Testament Text77
8The Text of the Old Testament89
9The Canon of the Scriptures105
10The Apocryphal Books115
11The English Bible to 1611125
12Recent Translations of the English Bible137
13"My Words Will Not Pass Away"157

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