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How We Got the New Testament: Text, Transmission, Translation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Stanley Porter, one of the world’s foremost experts in New Testament language and literature, offers a historical understanding of the writing, transmission, and translation of the New Testament and provides cutting-edge insights into how we got the New Testament in its ancient Greek and modern English forms. In part responding to those who question the New Testament’s reliability, Porter...

“corrupted” the text to appreciate various local and even theological situations in which the manuscripts of the New Testament were copied. For example, taking an approach that focuses on location, rather than the documents themselves, Eldon Epp has recently undertaken to classify papyrus manuscripts of the Greek New Testament on the basis of their location. He notes that most of the papyri have been found in Egypt, with a few found in other regions (e.g., 𝔓59, 𝔓60, and 𝔓61 were found in the Negev
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