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Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since the unexpected popularity of Bart Ehrman’s bestselling Misquoting Jesus, textual criticism has become a staple of Christian apologetics. Ehrman’s skepticism about recovering the original and inerrant text of the New Testament does deserve a response. However, this renewed apologetic interest in textual criticism has created fresh problems for evangelicals. An unfortunate proliferation of...

Cicero’s personal copies and published in books by his secretary Tiro.49 Thus, it cannot be said for certain that there were multiple autographic copies of every New Testament book produced by the authors. Having considered the question of what the autographs were, we turn now to consider how long they may have been in use. George Houston, in his work Inside Roman Libraries, surveys book collections in antiquity and analyzes their contents, the date of composition,
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