Volume 32 · Issue 1 · Winter 2026
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· Bruce Metzger
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Bruce Metzger

Bruce M. Metzger (1914–2007) was George L. Collord Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. Widely regarded as the most authoritative twentieth-century scholar on the New Testament text and canon.

20221 essay
Theological Implications of Inclusive Language in Biblical Translation
Theological Implications of Inclusive Language in Biblical Translation

Bruce Metzger's previously unpublished 1984 Princeton address on the theological stakes of inclusive language in Bible translation, published here for the first time. Translation always trades against itself, Metzger argues,…

20171 essay
If I were a Church School Teacher Again
If I were a Church School Teacher Again

Bruce Metzger spent his career as one of America's foremost biblical scholars but began as a Sunday School superintendent. These late-career reflections on what he would do if he had…

20141 essay
The Formation of the New Testament Canon
The Formation of the New Testament Canon

Metzger walks through the influences that quietly shaped the New Testament canon: which books circulated, which got read aloud in worship, which got cited as Scripture by the Fathers. The…

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