only a few ancient copies of those works known to exist. In sharp contrast, the copies we have of the New Testament are many and old. No book in the ancient world possesses so much evidence for its integrity as does the New Testament. TRANSLATIONS Soon after the Bible was written it began to be translated into other languages. The Old Testament was translated into Greek in Egypt during the third century B.C. (that Greek version is called the Septuagint). The New Testament was translated into Latin