"I bear branded on my body the marks of the Lord Jesus" Gal 6:14


Tuesday

NT manuscripts vs other antique manuscripts

Annuls of Rome (Tacticus A.D. 116)
His first 6 books exists today in one manuscript and it was copied in A.D. 850. Books 11 - 16 are in another manuscript from the eleventh century and books 7 - 10 are lost.

The Jewish War (first-century historian Josephus)
9 Greek manuscripts (written in 10, 11 and 12 centuries)
1 Latin manuscript

Illiad (Homer - 800 B.C. - considered the bible of the ancient Greek)
650 Greek manuscripts (written only in the second and third century)

New Testament Manuscripts
5000 plus in Greek
8000 - 10 000 in Latin Vulgate manuscripts
8000 - Ethiopic, Slavic and Armenina

Scholars like Geilser and Nix concluded that The New Testament has not only survived in more manuscripts than any other book from antiquity, but has survived in a purer from than any other great book - a form that is 99.5 percent pure.

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