13 April 1828 A.D. Bishop J.B. Lightfoot born.
We add the following. “Lost” Manuscripts of J.B. Lightfoot Found!
Ben
Witherington III discovers manuscripts by 19th century New Testament scholar
Biblical
Archaeology Society Staff • 03/12/2014
NOTES
OF J.B. LIGHTFOOT. This page of original handwritten notes comes from the
no-longer-lost manuscripts of J.B. Lightfoot and shows the scholar’s thoughts
on John 7:1–8:9. Ben Witherington III deciphered this page, along with the rest
of the corpus of lost manuscripts.
New
Testament scholar by day, text archaeologist by night? Ben Witherington III,
the Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological
Seminary in Kentucky, has uncovered the lost manuscripts of J.B. Lightfoot. The
Bishop of Durham in England, J.B. Lightfoot was the most famous New Testament
scholar of the 19th century in the English-speaking world. His commentaries on
Paul’s letters in the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers are especially
well-known. In “Text
Archaeology: The Finding of Lightfoot’s Lost Manuscripts” in the March/April
2014 issue of BAR, Ben Witherington III details his discovery of the
lost manuscripts of J.B. Lightfoot.
Spanning
four decades, his search was not simple. Ben Witherington III first came across
some of Lightfoot’s notes in 1978 in a display case full of manuscripts in the
Monk’s Dormitory of Durham Cathedral in England. Leafing through an old
notebook, he found a detailed analysis of Acts 15 that dated to 1855—written by
none other than J.B. Lightfoot!
Witherington
concluded that there must be more manuscripts. Thus, he began his quest for the
lost manuscripts of J.B. Lightfoot.
Ben
Witherington III’s full article “Mary,
Simeon or Anna: Who First Recognized Jesus as Messiah?” is available online
for free. Want to learn more about his research? Read “Understanding
Revelations in the Bible,” “God
Language in the New Testament” and “The
Göbekli Tepe Ruins and the Origins of Neolithic Religion,” three Bible
History Daily articles discussing his scholarship.
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