Featured and indexed studies that examine biblical manuscripts, transmission history, and the documentary evidence behind the text of Scripture.
Featured and indexed studies that examine biblical manuscripts, transmission history, and the documentary evidence behind the text of Scripture.
Studies for this section are listed below as they are published. Claims are documented and uncertainty is identified where the evidence is incomplete or disputed.
The earliest surviving New Testament evidence is not a single securely dated manuscript but a small cluster of second-century papyrus witnesses, followed by more substantial codices from around the turn of the third century.
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