A seminal collection of introductory essays by some of England's leading biblical scholars at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributions include an introductory lecture by William Sanday; Frederick Kenyon on manuscripts; F.C. Burkitt on ancient versions of the New Testament; F.H. Chase on the history of the New Testament Canon; A.C. Headlam on the dates of New Testament books; and J.H. Bernard on the historical value of the Acts of the Apostles.

Author - William Sanday
Author - Frederick Kenyon
Author - F. Crawford Burkitt
Author - A. C. Headlam
Author - J. H. Bernhard

"The lectures here printed were designed as a first step in a serious effort to awaken popular interest in Biblical Science, and to set out clearly the broad principles on which that criticism proceeds. No worse disaster to religion could well be imagined than the divorce of critical scholarship from ordinary belief. Criticism must not be allowed to take an esoteric character, but, at all hazards, must be held closely to the current teaching of the Church. These lectures will have justified their publication and answered to the purpose with which they were originally planned, if, in however small a measure, they contribute to this end."

H. Hensley Henson

Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible by Frederic G. Kenyon

The Authorship and Historical Character of the Fourth Gospel by William Sanday
Studies in the Synoptic Problem
Studia Biblica et Ecclesiastica, 5 Volumes

Jewish and Christian Apocalypses by F. Crawford Burkitt
The Book of Rules of Tyconius by F. Crawford Burkitt
The Earliest Sources for the Life of Jesus by F. Crawford Burkitt
The Gospel History and Its Transmission by F. Crawford Burkitt
S. Ephraim's Quotations from the Gospel
The Old Latin and the Itala by F. Crawford Burkitt
Church and Gnosis by F. Crawford Burkitt
Early Eastern Christianity by F. Crawford Burkitt
The Four Gospels in Syriac
Christian Beginnings by F. Crawford Burkitt