Can we actually get back to what the apostles wrote? That question sits underneath every other question about the New Testament. Before you ask whether the story is true, you have to ask whether you have the story at all. Dr. Michael Kruger came to Biola to walk me through it. His own interest started in a crisis, sitting at nineteen in an intro to New Testament class at UNC Chapel Hill taught by a young Bart Ehrman.

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Timestamps
00:00 Do we have what the apostles wrote?
01:28 The class that started it all
03:40 What textual criticism actually is
05:33 Why this comes before historicity
07:16 Why evangelicals avoided the field
10:03 How Misquoting Jesus changed things
13:32 Whats changed since the 1980s
16:18 Scholars versus the internet
18:14 What we can say confidently
19:57 Why Christians adopted the codex
27:42 The nomina sacra
34:46 P4, P64, and P67
41:03 P66 and the first page of John
47:32 P77 and the pocket Bibles
50:37 How the gospels got their names
54:09 A problem hes still working on
59:36 What decades of study did to his confidence