The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels were composed in different times and places over perhaps a third of a century, and for… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import;… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers. — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact, negligible, and… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
