Tyndale House Podcast

Mar 06 2025 43 ep. 32 mins 87
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Tyndale House, Cambridge, brings you insights from high-level Bible research to help you understand the Bible more and explore reasons why it can be trusted. 

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S5E8: How did chapter divisions get into the New Testament?

Mar 06 2025 30 mins  
In this episode, Nelson Hsieh, Research Associate in New Testament Text and Language at Tyndale House, discusses chapter divisions in Bible manuscripts with Tony Watkins. Nelson has been working on chapter divisions for the second edition of the Tyndale House Greek New Testament, and he explains how the approach he is taking is different to the method used in the first edition. The

S5E7: How is the Tyndale House Greek New Testament different to other editions?

Feb 27 2025 32 mins  
In this episode Tony, Dirk, and Nelson focus on the Tyndale House Greek New Testament (Crossway, 2017) and discuss how it is different from other editions of the Greek New Testament. They also talk about how the world of textual criticism was changed by the discovery of many more manuscripts in the late nineteenth century. Find out more about the host and guests here: Tony Watkins:

S5E6: What does textual criticism look like today?

Feb 20 2025 33 mins  
Having discussed how the early church and the reformers handled differences between Bible manuscripts, Tony, Dirk and Nelson now turn to look at how modern-day textual critics approach variation between manuscripts. Find out more about the host and guests here: Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/tony-watkins/ Dirk Jongkind: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/dirk-

S5E5: What role did textual criticism play in the reformation?

Feb 13 2025 30 mins  
In this episode, Tony Watkins (Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House) hears from Dirk Jongkind (Academic Vice Principal at Tyndale House) and Nelson Hsieh (Research Associate in New Testament Text and Language) about the role of textual criticism in the reformation. Find out more about the host and guests here: Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/tony-watkins

S5E4: How did the early church handle differences between manuscripts?

Feb 06 2025 35 mins  
In this episode, Tony Watkins, Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House, asks Dirk Jongkind and Nelson Hsieh, members of our New Testament team, about how the early church handled differences between Bible manuscripts. At 28:59 Dirk and Nelson are trying to remember a name, they incorrectly say Martianan, they meant Marcellum. Support the show Edited by Tyndale House Music –

Interview 8: 80 years of the Tyndale Bulletin

Jan 31 2025 27 mins  
Tony Watkins, Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House talks to David Armitage, Academic Administrator at Tyndale House about the Tyndale Bulletin, which is the Academic Journal published by Tyndale House. David shares how the Bulletin has developed since it first began in the 1940s. Visit the Tyndale Bulletin website: https://www.tyndalebulletin.org/ Follow Tyndale Bulletin o

S5E3: Major NT manuscripts and their impact on modern day Bibles

Jan 30 2025 39 mins  
In this episode, Tony Watkins asks Dirk Jongkind and Nelson Hsieh about some of the major New Testament manuscripts and how they have influenced the Bible translations we have today. Support the show Edited by Tyndale House Music – Acoustic Happy Background used with a standard license from Adobe Stock. Follow us on: X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

S5E2: What does a manuscript look like?

Jan 23 2025 37 mins  
In this episode Tony Watkins, Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House, talks to Dirk Jongkind, Academic Vice Principal of Tyndale House, about what a manuscript actually looks like, and what features scholars look out for when studying them. At 4:05 Dirk misspoke when he said P52 has John 19 on the back, it actually has John 18:37–38 on the back. At 31:14 Dirk mistakenly sa

S5E1: What is a manuscript and why should we study them?

Jan 16 2025 35 mins  
In season 5 of the Tyndale House podcast, Tony Watkins speaks to members of our New Testament team to find out about New Testament manuscripts and how studying them can help us with our trust and understanding of the Bible. In this first episode, Tony asks Dirk Jongkind and Nelson Hsieh what a manuscript actually is, and why it's worth studying New Testament manuscripts. Support th

Interview 7: Steve Walton on the book of Acts

Dec 05 2024 31 mins  
In this episode, Tony talks to Dr Steve Walton, Professor of New Testament and Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Bristol. Steve is a frequent visitor to us here at Tyndale House as he's been working on his commentary on Acts for the Word Biblical Commentary series. The first volume of the commentary, on Acts 1–9:42 (volume 37A), was published in the USA in October 2024,