bound copies of the entire New Testament date from the fourth and fifth centuries. So there is only a two-to three-hundred-year gap between the copies and their original manuscripts. In contrast, there is a thousand-year gap between Homer and the earliest extant copies of the Iliad, which is considered a very reliable work. Therefore, the New Testament has a much stronger manuscript history than any other writing in the ancient world. But how do we know these New Testament manuscripts faithfully