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You sound more like a rational eclectic everyday, ml. Keep exercising that mind; you never know what mysteries it may unveil!

I cannot recommend any other study Bible since I have only used a few others and found them to be unsuitable



The Spring 2006 lecture featured Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, chair of the Department of Religious Studies and James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The program was held on Tuesday, April 4, 2006, in Wilson Gymnasium on the Barton College campus. A book signing and wine reception began at 6 pm, followed by dinner and the program at 7:00 pm. Some 225 guests attended the event.

A historian and scholar of the New Testament and early Christian writings, Dr. Ehrman is the author of 16 books, including the recent Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine, which is an assessment of the historical accuracy of the claims made by author Dan Brown in his novel The Da Vinci Code. Dr. Ehrman has also authored A Brief Introduction to the New Testament, as well as his latest, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why.

A number of his books have been chosen as History Book of the Month Club Selections, including his recent book Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew and its companion, Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament, among others. Dr. Ehrman has also authored numerous articles, book reviews, and papers and served on numerous editorial boards. In addition, he has appeared on several radio and television programs including Soundings on National Public Radio, Mysteries of the Bible on A & E Network as well as programs on CNN and the History Channel.

Dr. Ehrman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wheaton College in Illinois and both a Master of Divinity degree and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. In addition to teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses at UNC-Chapel Hill, he has also taught at Princeton Theological Seminary, Rutgers University, and Duke University. Dr. Ehrman has also given lectures at numerous universities and seminaries and to various groups as well. http://library2.barton.edu/libraryinformation/friends.asp

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Bruce is another New Testament scholar, you may want to acquaint your self with, ml. He's been around quite awhile.



Bruce Manning Metzger (born 1914) is a professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor who serves on the board of the American Bible Society. He is a respected scholar of Greek, New Testament and Old Testament Bible, and has written prolifically on these subjects.

Metzger's commentaries often utilize Historical Criticism and Higher Criticism, which attempt to explain the literary and historical origins of the Bible and the biblical canon. For instance, Metzger argues that the primitive church which assembled the New Testament did not consider divine inspiration to be a sufficient criterion for a book to be canonized and in fact considered other works such as The Shepherd of Hermas and the Epistles of Clement to be inspired but not canonical. Because of such views, he has been criticized by some evangelicals who believe Metzger's views contradict the idea that the Bible is inerrant in its original manuscripts.[1]

Metzger was the editor of the Reader's Digest Condensed Bible, has edited and provided commentary for many bible translations and has written dozens of books. He also served as the general editor of the New Revised Standard translation of the Bible.

He is an expert on the textual criticism of the New Testament and is one of the editors of the United Bible Society's standard Greek New Testament, the starting point for nearly all translations of the New Testament in recent decades. He was a contributor to the Apocrypha of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Metzger