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[Bible] Episode 245: Elizabeth Schrader Polczer - Resurrecting Mary the Tower

The Bible For Normal People

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The Dangers of Adding Martha to a Text Like That

Papyrus 66, Codex Alexandrinus and some old Latin copies are used to reconstruct the opening five verses of John. Who adjudicated which readings from which manuscripts made it into your Bible? Those decisions are actually made by committees who make critical editions usually in Europe. So that's not necessarily a reading found in any one particular manuscript. It's brought a lot of different manuscripts together to create a base text.

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