Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Sean McDow, professor of apologetics at Taubit School theology,

viola University. And I'm your co-host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian

ethics also at Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

We're here today with Dr. Peter Gury, who's an assistant professor of New Testament and

co-director of the Text and Canon Institute at Phoenix Seminary, who's the co-editor of a fascinating,

and I would say a very very very important new book called

myths and mistakes in New Testament textual criticism.

This book is a correction to a lot of the mistakes that have been made

well intended by apologologists in defending the scriptures so it's

really a gift to the church that you've brought to us Peter so thanks for

coming on and and for joining us today.

My pleasure, thanks guys.

Let me just start off by asking you the question,

what is textual criticism?

What is it?

And maybe even before you answer, what is it?

How did you get interested in doing this personally and professionally?

Yeah, it's great question.

So I got into it because I had the privilege of getting to take a Greek course in high school.

So a New Testament Greek course, actually I took four years of Greek in high school.

And I was really fascinated by the fact that there was something behind my English Bible in the

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