THIS POST RESUMES MY RECOLLECTIONS OF MY INTERACTIONS WITH BRUCE METZGER, MY MENTOR.

When I entered my PhD program at Princeton Theological Seminary, I knew already that I wanted to specialize in the study of the Greek manuscript tradition of the New Testament.  As I indicated in my earlier posts, that’s why I went there, because Metzger was the country’s leading expert in this field, and one could argue the leading expert in the world (some Germans would contest the point!).

While doing my Master’s thesis for Metzger I read widely in the secondary literature on textual criticism, and came to be highly influenced by a scholar named Gordon Fee.   Fee is an interesting and important figure.  As it turns out, he is a very committed Pentecostal Christian, who preaches and evangelizes.  But when he’s not doing that, he’s doing scholarship, and he’s an amazing scholar.  At the time of my master’s work, he was one of the top textual critics in the country, right behind Metzger (the generation, or so, behind him).

One of the things Fee had worked on was the Patristic evidence for the New Testament.  These are the quotations of the New Testament by the ancient church fathers….

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