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Manuscript written between 330-360 A.D.

Manuscript written between 330-360 A.D. Came to the attention of scholars in the 19th century at the Greek Monastery of Mount Sinai , with further material discovered in the 20th and 21st century. Codex Sinaiticus.

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Manuscript written between 330-360 A.D.

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  1. Manuscript written between 330-360 A.D. Came to the attention of scholars in the 19th century at the Greek Monastery of Mount Sinai, with further material discovered in the 20th and 21st century. Codex Sinaiticus Portions located today in the British Museum ofHistory and at the University of Leipzig in Germany

  2. Codex Sinaiticus, 340 AD Contains half of the Old Testament books and all the N.T. except a few verses such as Mark 16:9-20 and Jn. 7:53-8:11.

  3. Passage from the book of Hebrews Codex Sinaiticus

  4. Bodmer Papyri • discovered in Egypt in 1952 • The papyri contain segments from the Old and New Testaments, early Christian literature, Homer and Menander (a famous Greek dramatist. • The papyri are kept at the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, in Cologny, Switzerland outside Geneva. In 2007 the Vatican Library acquired two of the papyri which are kept at the Vatican Library.

  5. A fragment of the Bodmer Papyri From the Gospel of Luke >>>

  6. Manuscript written between 325-350 A.D. Located today at the Vatican One of the oldest and most valuable manuscripts of the Greek Bible (Old and New Testament) Codex Vaticanus Universally agreed that the Codex Vaticanus is one of the best manuscripts of the Bible in Greek

  7. Codex Vaticanus Contains almost the entire Bible old and new - A.D. 325-350 It includes most of the Old Testament and most of the New Testament in Greek. Missing are I Tim. through Philemon, Heb. 9:14.

  8. Codex Vaticanus Passage from the book of Esther

  9. Compared to other Writings fromAntiquity

  10. Comparing Ancient Manuscripts

  11. Author Book Written Earliest Copy Difference Caesar Gallic Wars 100 – 44 BC c. 900 AD 1000 yrs Plato 400 BC c. 900 AD c. 1300 yrs Tacitus Annals 100 AD c. 1100 AD c. 1000 yrs Pliny Natural History 61 – 133 AD c. 850 AD c. 750 yrs Thucydidies History 460 – 400 BC c. 900 BC c. 1300 yrs Herodotus History 480 – 425 BC c. 900 AD c. 1350 yrs Homer Iliad 800 BC c. 400 BC c. 400 yrs New Testament 50 – 100 AD c. 114 fragments c. 200 books c. 250 most of NT c. 325 complete NT 25-50 yrs 100 yrs 150 yrs 225 yrs The Time Test

  12. Extra-Biblical Christian Sources Quotations from early Church Fathers concerning the New Testament Taken from The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, p. 43

  13. Dating of the N.T. Writings Couldn’t the stories about Jesus be a myth that was invented over a period of time? • I Corinthians Spring 55 • Mark 45-60 AD • Matthew 40-60 AD • Luke 57-60 AD • Jude 61-62 AD • Acts 57-62 AD • John 40-65 AD John A. T. Robinson, Redating the New Testament, p. 352

  14. Degree of Accuracy Even with all of the NT manuscripts, codices and papyri, they are so close it is referred to by historians as having “virtual certainty” This means that 2% or less of discrepancy between manuscripts. Almost ½ are 1 and 2 word variants for spelling, adding “the”, etc.

  15. The Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise thousands of fragments from every book of the Hebrew Old Testament except Esther, including a complete copy of the book of Isaiah. They were found in about a dozen caves near Qumran, Israel between 1949 and 1956. The manuscripts were dated by Carbon-14, style of writing, spelling, and pottery at between 300 B.C. to 100 A.D.

  16. The Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls agree at a 95% level. Much of this 5% difference is due to spelling changes.

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