How We Got Our Bible

by Ralph Earle

The origination, development, preservation of various translations, and how the Bible has spread. Paper.

Genres: Church, Christianity

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Ralph Earle, Jr. (January 17, 1908 – May 23, 1995) was a biblical scholar.

He was born in Dighton, Massachusetts.

He authored and edited many scholarly articles and books, including several Bible commentaries. He served as a pastor in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and Everett, Massachusetts while on faculty at alma mater Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts from 1933 to 1945. He was an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene.

Earle was founding Professor of New Testament at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri from 1945 to 1977 and served on the Committee on Bible Translation for the New International Version of the Bible.[2][3][4] Earle joined the Evangelical Theological Society as a charter member in 1950, served on the executive committee from 1958 to 1966, and was president in 1962.

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Reviews

[Bruce Stopher]

Written from a Church of the Nazarene perspective; this book has many references and quotes from Armenian, Wesleyan, and Nazarene thinkers. I had just finished a similar book that was shorter and gave far better information.

[Logan Flook]

Quick and concise read! Additionally give readers lots of base knowledge to facilitate further research into specific topics.