# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-manning-metzger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:43:16.869Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-manning-metzger"
name: "Bruce Manning Metzger"
slug: "bruce-manning-metzger"
description: "Bruce Manning Metzger was an American biblical scholar and historian who spent his career at Princeton Theological Seminary. Metzger specialized in textual criticism and Bible translation and chaired committees for the Revised Standard Version and New Revised Standard Version. He served on the board of the American Bible Society and United Bible Societies. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1986. Metzger is among the most influential New Testament scholars of the 20th century."
tagline: "American biblical scholar (1914-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce_Metzger.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1914-02-09"
deathDate: "2007-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump