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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...

Hermann von Soden, Heinrich Joseph Vogels, Augustin Merk, and José Maria Bover, 62.9 percent of the verses of the Greek New Testament show no variants.48 The individual books range from a low of 45.1 percent of verses with no variants (in Mark) to a high of 81.4 percent of verses with no variants (in 1 Timothy).49 According to the estimates of Aland and Aland, when one compares the two major text-types for the Greek New Testament—the Byzantine and the Alexandrian50—they “actually exhibit a remarkable
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