First Steve Watkins Memorial Lecture

This First Annual Steve Watkins Memorial Lecture is to be held in The Centre, Verney Close, Buckingham on Saturday October 17th at 2.15pm. The lecture is being given by Professor Hugh Houghton, Professor of New Testament in Birmingham University with the title, 'The Greek New Testament in the Twenty First Century.' There is a suggested donation of £7.00 to cover refreshments and expenses. Doors open at 2pm. You don't have to be able to read Greek to attend.

Professor Hugh Houghton manages a project to digitise all known pre-printing era (i.e.: before 1453) New Testament Manuscripts and fragments. Never a week goes by without more being discovered, and he will talk about some of the more exotic and interesting ones. He also has been the Chairman of the editorial Committee that produced the United Bible Societies Fourth Edition of the Greek New Testament, and will talk about something of what that entails. This promises to be an interesting occasion.

The late Steve Watkins was a long-standing member of Buckingham Parish Church and co-founder of the Eroumen groups which meet on-line and in person to study the Biblical and Cognate languages (i.e.: Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Hittite) and other aspects of Theology.

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Will Pearson-Gee		Jo Wigley
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