P52 is probably the oldest surviving manuscript and most likely dates to the second century. All the oldest NT manuscripts are on papyri. P stands for “papyri” taken from a reed-like plant in the marshes of Egypt. While listing all the manuscripts would be an impossible task, allow me to highlight some of the more prominent ones: P52 In other words, through the manuscript tradition, we can recreate the original texts with a high degree of accuracy. The reason for this accuracy is that we have 5,000+ extant Greek NT manuscripts (and thousands more in other languages). We affirm that copies and translations of Scripture are the Word of God to the extent that they faithfully represent the original. We affirm that inspiration, strictly speaking, applies only to the autographic text of Scripture, which in the providence of God can be ascertained from available manuscripts with great accuracy. In response to Ehrman’s objection, I’d like to quote the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. How does it help us to say that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God if in fact we do not have the words that God inerrantly inspired, but only the words copied by scribes-sometimes correctly but sometimes(many times!) incorrectly? But do these differences render our Bible unreliable? Bart Ehrman thinks so. Yet these copies differ in lots of different places. Now, all that we possess are copies of copies of copies-a lot of them actually. Most likely, they wore out after constant usage and copying. Sadly, none of the original autographs remain. This post will consider the manuscript tradition and preservation of the New Testament text. And Part 5 inquired into the early church’s reception of the New Testament Canon. Part 4 considered attributes of the New Testament Canon. Part 3 investigate the Old Testament canon and the Apocrypha. Part 2 looked at Old Testament development. Part 1 dealt with inspiration and inerrancy. #Dan wallace favorite text not in the bible series#This article is part 6 in a nine-part series on how we got our Bible.
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