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New Testament Manuscript Research ... searching for the source of Jesus!! When I visited Qumran (1993), where Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, on a pilgrimage in Israel, I was overwhelmed with the Jewish and Greek attention to documentation and books over the millennia...without this preoccupation, we would not know Jesus!! The search for the manuscripts, leads us back to the beginning of our Common Era. The search continues and needs moral and financial support. My goal is to find the original Jesus by finding the original manuscripts. Some are in the Bible, but have been handed down and changed by scribes through nearly 4 centuries to the NT Canon we now enjoy. dgb 11/6/99 In summary, this is where we stand: We now have early and very early evidence for the text of the New Testament. A classified list of the most important manuscripts will make this clear. Numbers preceded by a P refer to papyri, the letters refer to parchment manuscripts.
ca. A.D. 200 250 300 350 450 Matthew P45 B Sin. Mark P45 B Sin. A Luke P4,P45,P75 B Sin. A John P66 P45,P75 B Sin. A Acts P45 B Sin. A Romans-Hebrews P46 B Sin. A James-Jude P72,B Sin. A Apocalypse P47 Sin. AAs you can see, from the fourth century onwards the material base for establishing the text of the Greek New Testament is very good indeed. The manuscripts Sin. (Sinaiticus), A (Alexandrinus) and B (Vaticanus) are almost complete parchment manuscripts. With the help of the earlier papyrus manuscripts we have been able to establish that the text of these three great manuscripts is to a large extent reliable.
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