Can I Trust My Bible? From What Was Written to What I'm Reading

Timothy Bunting
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This podcast explores the transmission of the Biblical text throughout the ages, and how by textual criticism we can ensure that our Bibles today read the same as they were originally written. Music by Stevia Sphere: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com

  1. 08/26/2025

    Episode 14: The New Testament Papyri Pt. 2

    Let's continue discussing the New Testament papyri, specifically the history of their recent discovery and addition into the critical apparatuses of the Greek New Testament as well as how they have impacted modern English translations.

  2. 08/22/2025

    Episode 13: The New Testament Papyri Pt. 1

    We've already given an overview of the main categories of New Testament manuscripts. Now let's take a look at the first of those categories, the New Testament papyri. Interestingly, the first copies written, but the most recent to impact the Greek New Testament and English translations. Let's get familiar with the basic in's and out's of the NT papyri and come to understand why they are so important.

  3. 08/02/2025

    Episode 12: Categories of the New Testament Manuscripts

    To know the trustworthiness of a reading, you need to know the trustworthiness of the manuscripts that support that reading. In this episode we go over the six categories of New Testament manuscripts: the papyri, uncials, minuscules, lectionaries, early quotations, and ancient translations. We'll get an idea of what each of these categories and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Just understanding a manuscript's category can already tell us a great deal about that manuscript. In future episodes we'll look at each manuscript more carefully.

  4. 04/15/2022

    Episode 11: Examining the "Testimony" of the New Testament Manuscripts

    In this episode we discuss the basic guidelines textual critics employ when evaluating the quality of variant readings by comparing it to how a jury examines eyewitness testimony.  We'll see that this process is not as complicated as it might seem.

  5. 03/06/2022

    Episode 10: Comparing the Septuagint and Masoretic Text With John Weaver Pt. 2

    In this episode, we'll shift our discussion to how these two ancient texts have impacted the New Testament text and first century Christianity.

  6. 02/17/2022

    Episode 9: Comparing the Septuagint and Masoretic Text With John Weaver Pt. 1

    After being introduced to these two Old Testament documents, let's sit down with Dr. John Weaver as he helps us better understand their similarities, differences, and impacts on our modern translations.

  7. 12/09/2021

    Episode 8: Getting Familiar With the Septuagint

    We know that manuscripts in the original languages are essential when it comes to determining the original text, but what about ancient translations?  Let's take a look at the most well known ancient translation of the Old Testament Text: the Septuagint.  How valuable is it?  And how does it compare to the original Hebrew text?

  8. 12/09/2021

    Episode 7: The Original Languages of the Biblical Text Pt. 2

    In episode six, we started talking about the two original languages of the Old Testament, Hebrew and Aramaic.  This episode picks up right where we left off in the middle of our discussion about Aramaic and then moves onto discussing Greek, the language of the New Testament text.

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This podcast explores the transmission of the Biblical text throughout the ages, and how by textual criticism we can ensure that our Bibles today read the same as they were originally written. Music by Stevia Sphere: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com

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