Edward Freer Hills was an American Presbyterian scholar, perhaps the greatest 20th Century Traditional (“Byzantine”) Text, and Received Text

Textus Receptus

Textus Receptus is the name subsequently given to the succession of printed Greek texts of the New Testament which constituted the translation base for the original German Luther Bible, the translation of the New Testament into English by William Tyndale, the King James Version, and for most other...

 defender. Dr. Hills integrates his theological perspective alongside New Testament criticism.
Reading Dean John William Burgon

John William Burgon

John William Burgon was an English Anglican divine who became the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876. He is remembered for his passionate defence of the historicity and Mosaic authorship of Genesis and of Biblical inerrancy in general.-Biography:Burgon was born at Smyrna, the son of an English...

 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). 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." (King James Version Defended, Ch. 8)

Education

• Graduated summa cum laude at Yale University (1930–1933)
• 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
  Kirsopp Lake
  Kirsopp Lake was a New Testament scholar and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School. He had an uncommon breadth of interests, publishing definitive monographs in New Testament textual criticism, Greek palaeography, theology, and archaeology...
  
  as one of the readers

Books by Dr. Hills

• The King James Version Defended: A Christian View of the New Testament Manuscripts (1956). ISBN 0915923009.
  • An online version of his book is available here http://www.oldpathspublications.org/textus.html and here http://e-sword-users.org/users/node/3739and in HTML at http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/kjvdefen.htm
• Believing Bible Study. First edition, 1967; Second edition, 1977, Third edition, 1991. ISBN 0-915923-01-7.