Guest Speaker – Gay Street United Methodist Church
Date: 01/22/2025
Time: 06:30 pm-08:30 pm
Location: Gay Street United Methodist Church
Organizer: Gay Street United Methodist Church
Cost: Free
Contact and more info:
gsumctech@gmail.com
https://www.gaystreetumc.org/
About the event:
John Byron, PhD will present From the Scroll to the Book
The Bible is one of the most widely read books in the world. In North America, most homes have at least one copy of the Bible, but many probably have several. Yet, it can be easy to take our possession of the Bible for granted because we don’t appreciate the long and sometimes difficult process that brought us the Bible we read today. In this lecture Dr. Byron will explain how the Bible we hold in our hands evolved from scrolls and papyri written in numerous languages to the English Bible we use today.
Bio:
John Byron is Professor of New Testament at Ashland Theological Seminary. He completed undergraduate studies at Elim Bible Institute in Lima NY, an M.A. at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, a year of post-graduate work at Jerusalem University College in Jerusalem, Israel and a Ph.D. at the University of Durham in the UK. He is the author of six books and more than 30 articles. He served as a translator for the Common English Bible, is a regular columnist for Biblical Archaeology Review and excavated at Tel-Gezer in Israel. He has been married to Lori Byron since 1990. They spend their free time cycling and traveling together.