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Textual Variants 16.04.2008 58:36 ↓

The standard Greek New Testament of today has 138,162 words. It is a simple fact that out of the 5,745 biblical manuscripts that we have through the end of 2006, we find all sorts of variations between them. These variations are called "variants," which are "any place among the manuscripts of the New Testament where there is not uniformity of wording." How many textual variants are there? The best...

The Transmission of the NT: The Manuscripts 02.04.2008 54:25 ↓

It is amazing that we know anything of the New Testament. The early church had no great libraries or sanctuaries in which to store its books. Persecution began early and continued for a few hundred years. During the first three hundred years of persecution and the years after of freedom, the New Testament was continuously copied and recopied as believers held fervently to the only thing that could...

The Transmission of the NT: The Copying Process 26.03.2008 52:54 ↓

It is amazing that we know anything of the New Testament. The early church had no great libraries or sanctuaries in which to store its books. Persecution began early and continued for a few hundred years. During the first three hundred years of persecution and the years after of freedom, the New Testament was continuously copied and recopied as believers held fervently to the only thing that could...

The Transmission of the NT: The Composition Process 19.03.2008 58:16 ↓

For hundreds of years, scholars refused to believe that Matthew, Luke, Paul, and Peter could have written the books of the Bible that bear their names. Instead, it was widely believed that men from the late second and third centuries wrote the documents and put the apostles' names on them for credibility. The discovery of a famous fragment from John's Gospel in 1920 changed all that forever. Read...

The Transmission of the Old Testament 12.03.2008 51:32 ↓

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 was a major find for Old Testament studies. In the 60+ years since, scholars continue to learn more of these ancient books and our faith in its accuracy and reliability only continues to grow. Read about how the Old Testament was handed down and later written down and the ancient manuscripts that we have today that prove once again that we can trust th...