Free Live Stream: Daniel Wallace, Reliability of the Bible

How do you respond to the claim that there are 200,000-400,000 variants in the New Testament manuscripts, surely making it historically unreliable? There are more variants than words in the New Testament? Free Live Stream presentation from Purdue University by Dr. Daniel B. Wallace, "How Badly Has the Bible Been Corrupted?"  Feb 5, 7pm ET - Sign up for your group, church, ministry to watch. As Craig Blomberg has written, “Dan Wallace has clearly become evangelical Christianity’s premier active textual critic today.”  Sign up here.

Daniel B. Wallace Interview Transcript

The following transcript is from an Apologetics 315 interview with Daniel B. Wallace. Original audio here. Transcript index here. If you enjoy transcripts, please consider supporting, which makes this possible.

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BA: Hello. This is Brian Auten of Apologetics 315. Today, I’m speaking with Dr. Daniel B. Wallace, professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and an authority on Koine Greek grammar and New Testament textual criticism. He also influences students across the country through his textbook on intermediate Greek grammar, and it’s used in more than two-thirds of the nation’s schools that teach that subject. Dr. Wallace served as senior New Testament editor for the NET Bible and has founded The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM). The purpose of the CSNTM is to preserve the Greek text of the New Testament by taking digital photographs of all extant Greek New Testament manuscripts and that is found at CSNTM.org.

The purpose of our interview today is to find out more about Dr. Wallace’s work, his debates with Bart Ehrman, the reliability of the New Testament, and his advice for Christian defenders. Thanks so much for joining me today, Dr. Wallace.

DW: Thank you. I’m glad to be on the show, Brian.

Contending with Christianity's Critics: Conference Audio and Video

On September 29, 2012, Watermark Community Church hosted the Contending with Christianity's Critics Conference. This apologetics event had special guests, Ravi Zacharias, William Lane Craig, Frank Turek, John Stonestreet, Daniel Wallace, and Greg Koukl. Now all the media is available online from Watermark Community Church. Go right there with this link for audio/video. Want all the audios together? Use the RSS FEED here. Want to check out individual lectures? See below:

The Importance of Apologetics for Every Believer & Every Church

Todd Wagner - Video | Audio

• The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

Ravi Zacharias - Video | Audio

• Richard Dawkins on Arguments for God's Existence

William Lane Craig - Video | Audio (Eastwooding!)

• If God Exists, Why Does He Allow Evil?

Frank Turek - Video | Audio

• How Badly Did the Early Scribes Corrupt the New Testament

Dan Wallace - Video | Audio

• Defense and Offense: The Call to Care for Culture

John Stonestreet - Video | Audio

• Bad Arguments Against Religion

Greg Koukl - Video | Audio

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Daniel B. Wallace on the New Testament Documents

"The wealth of material that is available for determining the wording of the original New Testament is staggering: more than fifty-seven hundred Greek New Testament manuscripts, as many as twenty thousand versions, and more than one million quotations by patristic writers. In comparison with the average ancient Greek author, the New Testament copies are well over a thousand times more plentiful. If the average-sized manuscript were two and one-half inches thick, all the copies of the works of an average Greek author would stack up four feet high, while the copies of the New Testament would stack up to over a mile high! This is indeed an embarrassment of riches."

—Dan Wallace

HT: Jonathan Morrow

Debate: Daniel Wallace & Bart Ehrman 2012 Audio/Video

Here is a scholarly dialogue on the origins, the transmission, and the reliability of the New Testament. Do we have the original manuscripts? Can we trust the copies passed down to us? How accurate is our New Testament today? Daniel B. Wallace and Bart Ehrman discuss the topic: Is The Original New Testament Lost? Q&A follows the discussion. Video can be found on YouTube here. See also the great website The Ehrman Project for more great resources.

Full Debate MP3 Audio here. (2 hr)
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Is What We Have Now What They Wrote Then? Audio and Video by Daniel B. Wallace

Does the Bible we have today reflect what was originally written, or has it been substantially changed since it was first written? If you had subscribed to Biola University's Chapel video channel on Youtube, you would already know the answer. Dr. Daniel B. Wallace, professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, answers this question in (part 1 and part 2) a lecture entitled: Is What We Have Now What They Wrote Then? Check out the originals on Biola's Youtube channel. Audio below.

Full MP3 Audio here (1hr)

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New Testament Scholar Interview: Daniel B. Wallace

Today's interview is with Dr. Daniel B. Wallace, professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and an authority on Koine Greek grammar and New Testament textual criticism. He is founder of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. He talks about his background and current work, photographing NT manuscripts, the current number of manuscripts, some of the most important manuscripts (and some great stories), his testimony journey into textual criticism, the trustworthiness of the Bible, the meaning of textual variants (how they are really counted, and what they affect), how he approaches apparent Bible contradictions, the doctrine of inerrancy, his interactions and debates with Bart Ehrman, comparing the popular vs. the scholarly Ehrman, "we don't have the originals!", determining the authorship of the Gospels, advice for apologists (great stuff), and do's and don'ts for defending the Bible. Visit CSNTM.org to assist his work.

Full Interview MP3 Audio here (64 min)

Check out Wallace's debates with Ehrman:

• Greer-Heard Forum debate (book)

• SMU Debate (on DVD)

• Debate at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Feb. 1, 2012

Books by Daniel B. Wallace include:

• Dethroning Jesus (with Darrell Bock)
• The Basics of New Testament Syntax

• Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics

• Revisiting the Corruption of the New Testament

Wallace's recommended books to get started:

• The New Testament Documents: Are they Reliable? by F.F. Bruce

• The Historical Reliability of the Gospels by Craig Blomberg

• Reinventing Jesus by Komoszewski, Sawyer, and Wallace

Enjoy.

Subscribe to the Apologetics 315 Interviews podcast here or in iTunes.

Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts Free Downloads in iTunesU.

The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, which does excellent work with early manuscripts of the NT, is making a series of videos concerning New Testament manuscripts, textual criticism, history of the New Testament, and expert commentary on key verses available as a free download on iTunes U. Daniel B. Wallace has contributed a great deal of insight to these videos, which are well worth checking out. Look at manuscripts here!

Check out the CSNTM on iTunesU here.

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Dan Wallace on Text of Scripture: Interview MP3 Audio

Reclaiming the Mind Ministries' Converse with Scholars program features online interviews with scholars on relevant theological and apologetic topics. Some of these interviews been featured here, and their list includes names such as J.P. Moreland, Alvin Plantinga, William Lane Craig, Paul Copan, Greg Koukl, Justin Taylor, Mike Licona, James Sire, Sam Storms, Robert Bowman, Mark D. Roberts, and more. This audio is by Daniel Wallace on The Text of Scripture. (He wrote Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics)

Full MP3 Audio here. (1hr 40min)

Enjoy.

Last year's post was J.P. Moreland. See here.

Dan Wallace MP3 Audio: Is What We Have Now What They Had Then?

New Testament schollar Daniel B. Wallace presents this talk on the New Testaments documents entitled: Is What We Have Now What They Had Then? This is perhaps one of the best single audio files on the reliability of the New Testament documents. Highly recommended.

Full MP3 Audio here. (42 min)

Also, listen to Dan Wallace speak with James White on the Dividing Line here.
Enjoy.

The Missing Gospels MP3 Audio Interview

New Testament experts Darrell L. Bock, W. Hall Harris III, Daniel B. Wallace, and Mark Yarbrough discuss the impact of the Gnostic Gospels on Christianity in the early church, the church today, and contemporary culture.

Full MP3 Audio here.
Original media here. Hear more about the missing gospels with Darrell Bock here.

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Featured Website: Biblical Training

Today's featured website is biblicaltraining.org. This is an excellent resource for topics such as: systematic theology, church history, apologetics, hermeneutics, and many other helpful areas.

The almost two dozen speakers include: Craig Blomberg, Daniel Wallace, Bruce Ware, John Piper, Ronald Nash, and more.

MP3 audio is available for free, access is free, and all the content is great. Check it out.
Enjoy.

History of the English Bible - Daniel Wallace MP3 Audio

New Testament scholar Daniel Wallace presents four lectures in a series on the History of the English Bible, which is found at BiblicalTraining.org. Now you have to go right to biblicaltraining.org to get the audio. They do not allow direct linking to their audio files.
• From Wycliffe to King James
• The Reign of the King James
• From the KJV to the RV
• Why So Many Versions?

Enjoy.