Is The Bible True?
March 25, 2007 Speaker: Paul Ortlinghaus Series: The God Questions
Topic: Apologetics
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Here is the chart/table discussing Manuscript evidence.
| Author | When Written |
Earliest Copy |
Time Span |
# of copies |
| Caeser |
100-44 BC | AD 900 |
1,000 yrs |
10 |
| Plato | 427-347 BC | AD 900 |
1,200 yrs |
7 |
| Tacitus | AD 100 |
AD 1100 |
900 yrs |
20 |
| Thucydides | 460-400 BC | AD 900 |
1,300 yrs |
8 |
| Herodotus | 384-322 BC | AD 900 |
1,300 yrs |
8 |
| Aristotle | 450-385 BC | AD 900 |
1,400 yrs |
49 |
| Homer (Iliad) | 900 BC |
400 BC |
500 yrs |
643 |
| New Testament |
AD 40-100 |
AD 125 |
25 yrs |
24,000 |
This is a list of some of the most important and trusted documents of antiquity. The closest one to the NT in sheer numbers is Homer's Iliad.
When it comes to the accuracy of knowing what was in the original texts of the books of the Bible, no other literary piece comes close.
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