Dr. Ginsburg became a trusted national celebrity when he exposed the sensational Shapira scrolls as frauds, but his rise to fame began two decades earlier when he exposed the Jewish Jesus as real. Ginsburg contributed 200 groundbreaking articles to the popular 'Kitto's Biblical Cyclopedia' throug...

The Massorah was a massive mess. For centuries the scribes had been more interested in producing a tidy text with fancy frills than in preserving the Massoretic tradition. Jacob Ben Chaim had begun to collect and collate these scattered Massoretic notes but it wasn't until 300 years later that Ch...

If Dr. Ginsburg had brain crushes it would have been Elias Levita and Jacob Ben Chaim. He didn't just republish their pioneering works on the Massorah - he also told their stories with unabashed force. They saw the wrath of Christian antisemitism firsthand but still dared to engage, working with ...

It's 1877 and you're in London, sipping your morning tea and reading The Times. Suddenly your eye falls on something unusual - there in the midst of stock prices, cricket scores, and the latest news from the Empire, is a shining article about…"The Massorah"? This is the story of how Dr. Ginsburg ...

Five years after their first article The Times came out with an even bigger, full-page story on the Massorah. In two other articles The Times announced that Dr. Ginsburg hosted a dinner celebrating the completion of 15 years labour on the only official update to the King James Bible and detailed ...

The problem with Dr. Ginsburg's work was that, even though it was interesting, it was also useless to most people. All his Masoretic research was packed into three volumes but there were only a couple hundred printed...in almost indecipherable Hebrew...and they cost thousands of dollars. Dr. Gins...

There was probably a pained look behind the smiles of almost everyone who looked at Dr. Ginsburg's three books on the Masorah. It was spectacular...and almost impossible to understand. 30 years after the project began, Christian David and his wife Emilie changed that by coming out with an English...

Dr. Ginsburg left his English translation of the Massorah unfinished and spent the last ten years of his life working on the Ginsburg Bible 2.0. While the text was much the same, the footnotes with half a million tiny variations ballooned to almost take over the page. The sun set on C. D. Ginsbur...

What do you think, shouldn't it be a big deal that the greatest Hebrew scholar the English-speaking world ever produced was also a Jewish believer in Yeshua? C. D. Ginsburg was a champion in the early Messianic Jewish movement and one of our best, yet until this series no one has told his story i...

Christian David Ginsburg passed away on the eve of history's darkest days. Through two World Wars the Jewish people died and were reborn from the ashes - and with them rose the work of Dr. Ginsburg. The first Tanach produced by Jews in the new State of Israel used his Masoretic text and Jewish pu...

If Salkinson gave the New Testament a Hebrew soul and Ginsburg gave it a published body then it was John Wilkinson who gave it wings, mobilizing his Mildmay Mission to the Jews to put 250,000 copies into 10 million Jewish hands! This is the incredible story of John Wilkinson - from his friendship...

Responses to Isaac Salkinson's translation were extreme. Average Jewish readers favoured it as "more Hebrew" because of its pure Biblical vocabulary. Rabbis, Talmudic scholars, and Hebrew newspaper editors rushed to get a copy and hailed it as "exceedingly good" and "more perfect". Scholars, on t...

"Which translation is better, Salkinson or Delitzsch? Which should we be reading?" These were the questions on everyone's mind when the new version came out. Dr. Samuel Rolles Driver provided the most comprehensive answer with a detailed yet concise comparison between the two. Picking up where we...

No translation is perfect. Thought-for-thought paraphrases make for smoother reading but aren't as true to the original; literal word-for-word translations stick closer to the source text but often feel stiff and clunky. In his analysis of 'The Two Hebrew New Testaments' S. R. Driver gave words t...

For several years things got increasingly heated between Salkinson-Ginsburg and Delitzsch fans, with printed attacks on Delitzsch's translation only adding fuel to the flames. The old Professor finally defused the situation a year before his death by publishing never-before-seen correspondence be...

Professor Franz Delitzsch's Hebrew version of the New Testament did more to reveal the Jewish Jesus than anything else in history. This is part one of its story, from first rumblings in Delitzsch's 20s to the successful first edition of 1877. During this time Delitzsch quietly commenced his life'...