'''Bruce Manning Metzger''' (February 9, 1914 – February 13, 2007) was an American [[biblical scholar]], [[Bible translator]] and [[textual critic]] who was a longtime professor at [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] and Bible editor who served on the board of the [[American Bible Society]] and [[United Bible Societies]]. He was a scholar of Greek, [[New Testament]], and New Testament textual criticism, and wrote prolifically on these subjects. Metzger was one of the mostan influential New Testament scholarsscholar of the 20th century.<ref name="NYT2007">{{cite news |author=Margalit Fox |author-link=Margalit Fox |title=Bruce Metzger, Scholar and Bible Translator, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/obituaries/16metzger.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 16, 2007}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130728083543/http://www.pres-outlook.com/news-and-analysis3/1-news-a-analysis/4073.html New Testament Scholar and Bible Translator Bruce Metzger Dies]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncccusa.org/news/070214metzger.html|title=Bruce Metzger dies at 93|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/3831/20130820184059/http://www.ncccusa.org/news/070214metzger.html|archive-date=August 20, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref> He was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Bruce+M.+Metzger&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>