Edward F. Hills

Edward Freer Hills (1912–1981) was an American Presbyterian scholar, perhaps the most prominent 20th-century advocate of the Byzantine text-type and Textus Receptus.[1][2]

Contribution

Hills integrates his theological perspective alongside New Testament criticism. Reading John William Burgon inspired Hills to approach textual criticism from a "logic of faith" (1952 is the year that Hills made a definite commitment to this view).[3] As to the relationship of the King James Bible to the Textus Receptus (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."[4]

Education

Books
  • The King James Version Defended: A Christian View of the New Testament Manuscripts (PDF), Christian Research Press, 1956, ISBN 0-915923-00-9.
  • Believing Bible Study (3rd ed.), 1991 [1967, 1977], ISBN 0-915923-01-7.

References
  1. Beacham, Roy E; Bauder, Kevin T (2001), One Bible only?: examining exclusive claims for the King James Bible, p. 48, Edward F. Hills – Another individual who made a sizable contribution to the King James-Only movement, although not drawing directly from the works of Wilkinson and Ray, is Edward F. Hills (1912–1981). Hills actually possessed genuine...
  2. Price, James D (2006), King James Onlyism: A New Sect, p. 263, ISBN 9780979114700.
  3. Cloud, David, The Testimony of Dr. Edward F. Hills, Way of life, 2nd to last paragraph.
  4. "8", King James Version Defended, Jesus is Lord.
  5. Barnett, Robert, KJV Bible, Dean Burgon Society.
  6. Whitmer, John, Hills Revisited (PDF), Holy Word café.
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