Edward F. Hills


Edward Freer Hills was an American Presbyterian scholar, perhaps the greatest 20th Century Traditional Text and Received Text defender.

Contribution

Dr. Hills integrates his theological perspective alongside New Testament criticism. Reading Dean John William Burgon inspired Dr. Hills to approach textual criticism from a "logic of faith". As to the relationship of the King James Bible to the Received Text, Hills wrote "the King James Version ought to be regarded not merely as a translation of the Textus Receptus but also as an independent variety of the Textus Receptus."

Education