Webinar #174 Dirk Jongkind - Are the New Testament Documents Reliable?

Recorded on 9 November 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dirk Jongkind. The books of the New Testament were all written in the first century and have since been copied by countless scribes. The original physical manuscripts written by the apostles have all long perished, so we have to do with copies. However, as happens when a text is copied, errors can creep in and this has happened with the New Testament, as the footnotes in any modern translation will tell us. But of course, the reliability of the New Testament is not just questioned because of the reliability of the texts itself, but also because of the events they describe. In this webinar we will go through some of the debates and the major issues, and we will formulate some take-home arguments that can help us in our own testimony. Dirk Jongkind is a biblical scholar who specialises in the text and language of the New Testament. At Tyndale House, a residential research institute for biblical studies and where he is Academic Vice Principal under Pete Williams, Dirk prepared the Tyndale House Greek New Testament based on a fresh comparison and analysis of the oldest Greek manuscripts. For more information on Tyndale House visit https://tyndalehouse.com ⁠⁠⁠To listen live to future ICMDA webinars, visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://icmda.net/resources/webinars/⁠⁠