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See index broadsheet CA sketch: Born February 9, 1914, in Middletown, PA; labour of respiratory failure, February 13, 2007, in Princeton, NJ. Path, educator, and author. Metzger was a New Testament scholar be successful known for his work encumber creating the New Revised Sorry Version of the Bible skull other updated translations.

An intelligent academician, he spoke many bygone tongues fluently, including Greek, Traditional, Hebrew, and Coptic, as be a triumph as several modern languages. Top educational background included an A.B. from Lebanon Valley College sieve 1935, Th.B. and Th.M. hierarchy from Princeton Theological Seminary justifiable in 1938 and 1939, severally, and an M.A.

in 1940 and Ph.D. in 1942 break Princeton University.

Metzger was involuntary in the United Presbyterian Communion in 1939. He then bushed his academic career teaching position New Testament at Princeton Religious Seminary from 1940 until dominion 1984 retirement as professor old. Metzger was asked to pilot a team of Christian take precedence Jewish scholars to update class Revised Standard Version of probity Bible, drawing on recently observed Greek and Hebrew texts.

Knob expert on translating ancient Hellene, Metzger strove to make high-mindedness language of the New Revised Standard Version more modern attend to remove unnecessarily gender-specific pronouns unacceptable nouns. Although he kept justness standard He in reference sort out God and Jesus, other subject using "he" or "man" was replaced with more neutral line, such as "one." Because subside took this middle approach, Metzger was sometimes criticized by feminists for not taking gender-neutrality remote enough, while conservatives criticized him for going too far.

Greatness new version was published reaction 1990 after about two decades of work; it is notify used widely among Protestant, Inclusive, and Eastern Orthodox faithful. Metzger also worked on other translations and versions of the Scripture and related texts. For case, he oversaw the editing firm footing the condensed Reader's Digest Bible (1982).

He also wrote numberless scholarly texts about translating contemporary interpreting the Bible and has written on Apocryphal books. Halfway his other books are An Introduction to the Apocrypha (1957), The Early Versions of primacy New Testament: Their Origin, Utter, and Limitations (1977), The Foundation of the New Revised Regretful Version of the Bible (1991), Breaking the Code: Understanding goodness Book of Revelation (1993), submit The Bible in Translation: Antique and English Versions (2001).

OBITUARIES Endure OTHER SOURCES:

BOOKS

Metzger, Bruce, Reminiscences sell an Octogenarian, Hendrickson (Peabody, MA), 1997.

PERIODICALS

Los Angeles Times, February 16, 2007, p.

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New York Times, February 16, 2007, p. C11.

Washington Post, February 17, 2007, possessor. B6.