CE 502 - History Of The Scriptures

Praise the Lord!!! Just a reminder that in lieu of your midterm examinatin, you will be responding for a book report based on the readings and study material discussed in Chapter 10 of your textbook. Below is a description of your assignment:

Chapter 10 – Book Report Assignment

According to your text, the Westcott-Hort text, along with the English Revised Version, dealt the final blow to the Received Text upon which the KJV was based. This will be discussed in later chapters.

There is much dispute still today about which of these texts is amore faithful representation of the original Greek NT.

The Textus Receptus or the Greek text of B.F. Westcott and FJA Hort. I like what one writer stated in my research findings said, “All text families are doctrinally orthodox. A dispassionate evaluation of evidence is very much to be preferred to the emotionally charged tirades that characterize much of the current discussion” (Douglas Kutiket, 1996)

In other words – you do the research and come to your conclusion.

Your homework assignment is to read : “Common Sense in the Midst of Conflict (A Brief Discussion of the Controversy over the King James 1611 Bible and Modern Versions) and do a report on it.

In the report you are to state

1. State your opinion of the book
2. State what the author was attempting to do
3. Do you agree or disagree with his findings
4. Upon what do you based your conclusion on (if you agree or disagree).
Report paper will be due November 24. Length minimum of two pages – max three pages.

Written Assignments Guidelines
1. All written assignments must be size 12 font for readability.
2. All written assignments must be typed double-spaced and legible.
3. All written assignments will only be received in a folder with: Course Name and Number; Theme or Title; Student’s Name and Address, Date and Professors Name, Your email address when possible, and/or Phone Number.
4. All written assignments, etc. will only be returned if a self-addressed and stamped enveloped is received with the student’s work

If you have any questions, please contact your instructor at cutdean@aol.com or 703-791-3499, ext. 211.