The Text & Canon Institute illuminates the history of the Bible through resources and research. Directed by @drjohnmeade & @pjgurry. Hosted at @MBTS.

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As we ramp up our work of Illuminating the History of the Bible from Kansas City, check out our exciting projects from 2025-2026! Also, make sure to *resubscribe* (or subscribe for the first time!) to our email list. We anticipate great work ahead. textandcanon.org/summer-2026…
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Due to our move to Kansas City, we've been in a holding pattern for about a year and a half, but we're ready to resume our work this summer. We're publishing an important Update on Monday morning. Subscribe to make sure you receive it in your Inbox. textandcanon.org/subscribe/
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Getting started here in rainy but very green Lake Stevens, WA!
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Some 300 attendees at our Scribes & Scripture conference at Calvary Chapel in Lake Stevens, WA this morning! Next time, we'll bring more copies of the book, since these went before the conference even started 🙂.
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This Saturday, we'll be in Lake Stevens, WA (Calvary Chapel) speaking on how we got the Bible! The conference is free and includes lunch. For details and the link to register, see👇.
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Something’s brewing… ☕️
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We’re back on the road! Speaking in Perry, Michigan at Graham Church where one of our former students pastors.
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On May 16, we're looking forward to speaking in Lake Stevens, WA on how we got the Bible! We'll be at Calvary Chapel, and the conference is free and even includes lunch. For details and to register, see the link👇.
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Here is my review of the new UBS6 Greek NT in the latest Themelios. “So much has changed with this edition that it can fairly be called the most significant update to the UBS edition in fifty years…” thegospelcoalition.org/theme…
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The paperback version of Scribes and Scripture: The Amazing Story of How We Got the Bible by @pjgurry & @drjohnmeade is on sale for $15.96 “Many Christians love the Bible and yet know little of the fascinating story of what happened between its original composition and the book we can hold in our hands today. In Scribes and Scripture, John Meade and Peter Gurry provide a succinct and yet amazingly detailed overview of how the Bible was written and copied, canonized, and translated. This book will enable Christians to understand why Protestants have a different canon than Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox. It will teach them how to respond to secular critics who claim the Bible has been hopelessly corrupted over time or that the process of canonization was the arbitrary result of power struggles in the early church. And it will encourage them that we can trust our Bibles without ignoring or downplaying the messy realities of scribal errors, variant manuscripts, or disagreements about canonicity in the church. Properly considered, these ‘human’ elements in the story of the Bible in no way detract from the Bible’s authority as the word of God. I enthusiastically recommend this timely, unique, wise, and God-honoring book to anyone who wonders how we have received the Bible we have today. It will be the first book I recommend on the subject to any curious inquirer.” ― @GavinOrtlund, President, Truth Unites; Theologian in Residence, Immanuel Nashville, Tennessee; Visiting Professor of Historical Theology, Phoenix Seminary purchase link: amazon.com/Scribes-Scripture… @crossway
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Dear #Isaiah scholars. Why can’t I find anyone who thinks that the ‘we’ who are evidently speaking in Isaiah 53.1–6 stop speaking at the end of verse 6, and that the LORD then starts speaking in verse 7? It seems pretty unobjectionable. You just have to assume that the person who utters the words ‘my servant’ and ‘my people’ in Isaiah 53 is the same person who utters them everywhere else in the book of Isaiah. Note: The reading ‘his people’ in Isaiah 53.8 seems very minority, as this excellent @TextandCanon article shows: textandcanon.org/part-2-does…
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This Easter weekend, we hope you enjoy our series of articles on the major textual problems in Isaiah 53 and that these articles give a clearer vision of the identity and accomplishment of God's Servant from this significant chapter in Isaiah's vision. textandcanon.org/a-new-serie…

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📣 Have you heard? The Carson Center from @TGC is hosting an Online Cohort with Drs. @pjgurry and @drjohnmeade! Join them and learn more about how we got the Bible through their online cohort! thegospelcoalition.org/cohor…
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I kick off this 6-week @TGC Cohort on April 16 with a presentation on "The Text of the Old Testament." If you haven't already registered, click through to consider whether this is the crash course for you. thegospelcoalition.org/cohor…
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Amazon has our book at 20% off right now. Looks like one could also pick up 3 copies for the price of 2. Not bad! amzn.to/4t5xEVT
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Looking forward to speaking in Gilbert, AZ this Sunday night. cev.churchcenter.com/registr…
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Don’t miss this opportunity to study the significant question of how we got the Bible with the directors! Registration details in the original post. We hope to see you in this cohort next month!
The Carson Center is thrilled to announce another cohort: "How We Got the Bible" with Peter Gurry and John Meade 🚀 🟢 Meets 4/16/26-5/21/26 🟢 We offer group and church staff discounts 🟢 Registration includes two textbooks If you can’t make all or any of the sessions, no worries! Registered students will have lifetime access to the recordings and will receive the textbook in the mail. 🎞️📷📦 Sign up here: tinyurl.com/mujy45tu
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Change is often good. My student @Seth_Troutt has identified a change to how we defend the faith. Shocker: disciplined, patient study of the scriptures for the win. @WesleyLHuff, @TextandCanon, and @MBTS all get mentioned and quoted in this piece. wng.org/opinions/digital-def…
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