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   How many Bible manuscripts are there?

   • This pivotal question invites us into the expansive and intricate world of biblical manuscript tradition. As noted by Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, with over 5,700 New Testament manuscripts in existence, scholars have a vast repository of Greek texts to compare and study. However, it's important to note that the Bible manuscripts extend beyond Greek.

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   What is a biblical manuscript?

   • A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see Tefillin) to huge polyglot codices (multi-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament, as well as extracanonical works.

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   How many ancient manuscripts are there?

   • "Astounding" number of ancient manuscripts extant: 5,000 Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin and 9,000 other--totaling over 24,000 manuscript copies or portions of the New Testament. These are dated from 100 to 300 years after the originals.

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   How many copies of the New Testament are there?

   • 1st Cent. A.D. (A.D. 50-100) 2nd Cent. A.D. (c. A.D. 130 f.) There are thousands more New Testament Greek manuscripts than any other ancient writing. The internal consistency of the New Testament documents is about 99.5% textually pure. In addition, there are over 19,000 copies in the Syriac, Latin, Coptic, and Aramaic languages.

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   How many second-century New Testament manuscripts are there?

   • This brings the total number of possible second-century New Testament manuscripts to 11. These 11 manuscripts, and in particular, the four that are securely dated to the second century, are important links in chain connecting the Bible we read today to the original text of the New Testament.

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   Where are the earliest New Testament manuscripts found?

   • Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain Housed in the Sackler Library Papyrology Room at the University of Oxford, England are two of the earliest New Testament manuscripts. P90 (P. Oxy. 3523), is a small fragment of papyrus with portions of the Gospel of John (18:36-19:7) on both sides in Greek.

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   A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see Tefillin) to huge polyglot codices (multi-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament, as well as extracanonical works.

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   • Reliability of The New Testament as Historical Documents
   • Quotations from Early Church Fathers
   • Primary Source Value
   • Reliability of The Old Testament

   "Astounding" number of ancient manuscripts extant: 5,000 Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin and 9,000 other--totaling over 24,000 manuscript copies or portions of the New Testament. These are dated fr...

   Early fragments: John Ryland manuscript 130 A.D. in Egypt; Bodmer manuscript containing most of John's gospel 150-200 A.D.; Magdalen fragment from Mat. 26believed by some to be within a few years o...

   Comparison with other ancient documents (available copies versus the originals):

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   Clement of Rome (a disciple of the apostles) cited Matthew, John, and 1 Corinthians in 95 to 97 A.D. Ignatius (who knew the apostles well) referred to six Pauline Epistles in about 110. Polycarp (d...

   Of the four Gospels alone, there are 19,368 citations by the church fathers from the late first century on. Even if we had no manuscripts, virtually the entire New Testament could be reconstructed...

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   Testimony of the New Testament authors themselves: Luke 1:1-3, 3:1, John 21:24, Acts 26:24-26,  2 Peter 1:16,  1 John 1:3.

   Both liberal and conservative scholars in recent years have moved to the view that ALL of the New Testament was written prior to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. (Liberal scholar John A. T. R...

   Substantial other evidences of the New Testament being written between 40 and 60 A.D. See Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics.

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   Jewish scholars performed "unbelievable" care in copying and preserving Scripture.

   The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 are dated from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D. These manuscripts predate by 1000 years the previous oldest manuscripts. They represent every...

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   Feb 20, 2024 · How many Bible manuscripts are there? This pivotal question invites us into the expansive and intricate world of biblical manuscript tradition. As noted by Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, with over 5,700 New Testament manuscripts in existence, scholars have a vast repository of Greek texts to compare and study.

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   Aug 29, 2024 · Although there are many ancient Biblical manuscripts, the importance of the Leningrad Codex and the Aleppo Codex, codices created by the Masoretic scholars, lies in the annotations that the texts contain.

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   There are thousands more New Testament Greek manuscripts than any other ancient writing. The internal consistency of the New Testament documents is about 99.5% textually pure. In addition, there are over 19,000 copies in the Syriac, Latin, Coptic, and Aramaic

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   Some 8,000 MSS of the Lat. Vul. are extant, twice as many as the number of Gr. MSS, which suggests that the Vul. Bible was the most frequently copied work of ancient lit. Manuscripts of the Vul. are commonly designated by abbreviations of their names ( am, cav , fu , harl ), or by their capital initial letters.

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   Feb 15, 2019 · To date we have over 5800 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, with an astounding 2.6 million pages of biblical text. 1 While some of these manuscripts are small and fragmentary, the average size of a New Testament manuscript is 450 pages. 2 Add to this the ancient manuscripts in Latin, Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, etc. which number in the tens ...