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Originally posted by sultan:
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Originally posted by Yorick:
The bible has 25,000? (or another ridiculously high figure) manuscripts dating to only 50 years after the events.
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fascinating. could you provide a source for this statement please? [/QUOTE]
http://www.is-the-bible-true.com/
The Bible was completed in its entirety nearly 2,000 years ago and stands today as the best-preserved literary work of all antiquity with over 24,000 ancient New Testament manuscripts discovered thus far. Compare this with the second best-preserved literary work of antiquity, Homer's Iliad, with only 643 preserved manuscripts discovered to date.
http://www.ge-li.de/LingenbergEngl/bibel.htm
"There are to the 8000 manuscripts of the Latin Vulgata and at least thousand other former versions. In addition come over 4000 Greek manuscripts, and therewith we have 13000 manuscript copies of parts of the new testaments. Besides can be reproduced a big part of the new testament from the quotations of the first christian authors."
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t003.html
The historical accuracy of the Scriptures is likewise in a class by itself, far superior to the written records of Egypt, Assyria, and other early nations. Archeological confirmations of the Biblical record have been almost innumerable in the last century. Dr. Nelson Glueck, probably the greatest modern authority on Israeli archeology, has said:
"No archeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference. Scores of archeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail historical statements in the Bible. And, by the same token, proper evaluation of Biblical descriptions has often led to amazing discoveries."