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Bible Reliability copies classical Lit
Textual Reliability Standards Applied to Classical Literature
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AUTHOR |
BOOK |
DATE WRITTEN |
EARLIEST
COPIES |
TIME
GAP |
NO. OF
COPIES |
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Homer |
Iliad |
800
B.C. |
c. 400
B.C. |
c. 400 yrs. |
643 |
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Herodotus |
History |
480–425
B.C. |
c.
A.D.
900 |
c. 1,350 yrs. |
8 |
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Thucydides |
History |
460–400
B.C. |
c.
A.D.
900 |
c. 1,300 yrs. |
8 |
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Plato |
|
400
B.C. |
c.
A.D.
900 |
c. 1,300 yrs. |
7 |
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Demosthenes |
|
300 B.C. |
c.
A.D.
1100 |
c. 1,400 yrs. |
200 |
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Caesar |
Gallic Wars |
100–44
B.C. |
c.
A.D.
900 |
c. 1,000 yrs. |
10 |
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Livy |
History of
Rome |
59
B.C.–A.D.
17 |
4th
cent. (partial)
mostly 10th
cent. |
c. 400 yrs.
c. 1,000 yrs. |
1 partial
19 copies |
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Tacitus |
Annals |
A.D.
100 |
c.
A.D.
1100 |
c. 1,000 yrs. |
20 |
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Pliny Secundus |
Natural History |
A.D.
61–113 |
c.
A.D.
850 |
c. 750 yrs. |
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Textual Reliability Standards Applied to the Bible
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AUTHOR |
BOOK |
DATE |
EARLIEST |
TIME
GAP |
NO. OF |
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WRITTEN |
COPIES |
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COPIES |
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John |
New
Testament |
A.D.
50-1 00 |
c.
A.D.
130 |
+50 yrs. |
Fragments |
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The rest of the New |
|
|
c.
A.D.
200 |
100 yrs. |
|
|
Testament authors |
|
|
(books) |
|
|
|
|
|
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c.
A.D.
250
(most of N.T.) |
150 yrs. |
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c.
A.D.
325 |
225 yrs. |
+5,600 Greek |
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|
(complete N.T.) |
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mss. |
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|
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c.
A.D.
366–384
(Latin Vulgate
trans.) |
284 yrs. |
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c.
A.D.
400–500 |
400 yrs. |
+19,000 |
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(other trans.) |
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trans. mss. |
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TOTALS |
50–400 yrs. |
+24,900 mss. |
The Gospel of
Thomas…
early- to mid-second century A.D.
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas…
early- to late-second century A.D.
The Gospel of Mary…
mid-second- to third-century A.D.
The Gospel of Philip…
mid-second- to third-century A.D.
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