Edward F. Hills

Edward Freer Hills (1912–1981) was an American Presbyterian scholar, perhaps the greatest 20th Century Traditional (“Byzantine”) Text and Received Text defender.^[1][2]

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” (1952 is the year that Dr. Hills made a definite commitment to this view).^[3] 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."^[4]

Education

• Graduated summa cum laude at Yale University (1930–33)^[5]
• Th.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary (ca. 1935)
• Th.M. from Columbia Theological Seminary
• Th.D. in New Testament textual criticism from Harvard under the supervision of Henry J. Cadbury, Kirsopp Lake as one of the readers^[6]

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 .

Notes

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 .
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 .