The New Testament is the Most Authenticated Work in History
Comparison between Ancient Secular Manuscripts -&- The New Testament
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Ancient Secular Manuscripts |
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Writer |
Date |
Earliest Copy |
Copies |
Time Gap |
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Sophocles - Greek Playwright |
496 - 406 BC |
1000 AD |
193 |
1400 + years |
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Euripides - Greek Playwright |
480 - 406 BC |
1100 AD |
9 |
1500 + years |
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Herodotus - History |
480 - 425 BC |
900 AD |
8 |
1300 + years |
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Thucydidus - History |
460 - 400 BC |
900 AD |
8 |
1300 + years |
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Aristophanes - Greek Playwright |
448 - 380 BC |
900 AD |
10 |
1280 + years |
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Plato - Greek Philosophy |
427 - 347 BC |
900 AD |
20 |
1240 + years |
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Aristotle - Greek Philosophy |
384 - 322 BC |
1100 AD |
49 of any 1 work |
1420 + years |
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Horace - Roman Philosophy |
65 - 8 BC |
900 AD |
Several |
900 + years |
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Caesar - Roman History |
100 - 44 BC |
900 AD |
10 |
940 + years |
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Lucretius - Roman Philosophy |
99 - 55 BC |
1050 AD |
2 |
1100 + years |
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Catullus - Roman Poet |
84 - 54 BC |
1550 AD |
3 |
1600 + years |
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Pliny - Historian |
61 - 113 AD |
850 AD |
7 |
750 + years |
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Josephus - Jewish History |
1st Century AD |
500 AD |
15 of any 1 work |
400 + years |
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Suetonius - Roman History |
70 - 140 AD |
950 AD |
8 |
800 + years |
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Tacitus - Greek History |
100 AD |
1100 AD |
20 |
1000 + years |
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New Testament Manuscripts |
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There is a continuous line of more than 20,000 manuscripts with less than a 300-year time between the time the New Testament first was penned till the entire New Testament was contained in one volume. With the discovery of the Magdalen Papyrus dating to @ 70AD, we now have portions of the New Testament (from the Gospel of Matthew) that actually predate the completion of other portions of the New Testament (completed @ 90 AD). |
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