http://lamp-light.com Evidence for the Life of Jesus The Messiah - His Resurrection & Deity Sun, 04 Dec 2022 23:25:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3 http://lamp-light.com/?p=26 http://lamp-light.com/?p=26#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2014 19:06:10 +0000 http://lamp-light.com/?p=26 The New Testament Manuscripts Compared to Other Ancient Texts

Author	Book	Date Written	Earliest Copies	Time Gap	No. of Copies
Homer	Iliad	800 B.C	c. 400 B.C	c. 400 yrs.	643
Herodotus	History	480-425 B.C	c. A.D.900	c. 1,350 yrs.	8
Thucydides	History	460-400 B.C	c. A.D.900	c. 1,300 yrs.	8
Plato		400 B.C	c. A.D.900	c. 1,300 yrs.	7
Demosthenes		300 B.C	c. A.D.1100	c. 1,400 yrs.	200
Caesar	Gallic Wars	100-44 B.C	c. A.D.900	c. 1,000 yrs.	10
Livy	History of Rome	59 B.C-A.D. 17	c. 4th cent. (partial) mostly 10th cent.	c. 400 yrs. c. 1,000 yrs.	1 partial 19 copies
Tacitus	Annals	A.D. 100	c. A.D.1100	c. 1,000 yrs.	20
Pliny Secundus	Natural History	A.D.61-113	c. A.D.850	c. 750 yrs.	7
Various	New Testament	A.D.50-100	c. 114 (fragment) c. 200 (books) c. 250 (most N.T.) c. 325 (complete N.T.)	+50 yrs. 100 yrs. 150 yrs. 225 yrs.	24,970

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