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Neil R. Lightfoot


Born
in Waco, Texas, The United Kingdom
September 22, 1929

Died
September 18, 2012

Genre
Textual Criticism


Dr. Lightfoot is known for his books and scholarly articles. His books include: How We Got the Bible (3rd edition, revised and expanded), Lessons From the Parables, Jesus Christ Today: A Commentary on the Book of Hebrews, The Role of Women: New Testament Perspectives, and Everyone’s Guide to the Book of Hebrews. His videos and filmstrips include How We Got the Bible, Now That I Am a Christian, and Can We Believe the Bible? In addition, he has served as Greek-text editor and a translator of the The International Children’s Version (NT), The Word: The New Century Version (NT), and the The Everyday Bible.

Dr. Lightfoot held the B.A. and M.A. Degrees in Philosophy from Baylor University, and the Ph.D. degree in New Testament from Duke University ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 985 ratings · 133 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors
How We Got the Bible
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Everyone's Guide to Hebrews
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Jesus Christ Today
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The Parables of Jesus, Vol 2
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The Parables of Jesus, Vol 1
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Lessons from the Parables
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The Parables of Jesus: A Ma...
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“Our New Testament text of today is a reconstructed or restored text. It has been reconstructed by modern scholarship from three independent lines of witnesses: the manuscripts, the versions, and the writings of early Christians (Church Fathers). In”
― Neil R. Lightfoot, How We Got the Bible: Factual Answers to Questions about the History of the Bible – Revised and Expanded Third Edition
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