�Manuscripts

�CodexCodex

�Cannon

�Apocrypha

Dates:

� Hebrew Manuscripts do not date back as far as

Scribes:

date back as far as Greek NT.

Aleppo Codex

� C.E. 920 � C.E. 1080

Leningrad Codex

How Does the New Testament Measure Up

to Other Ancient Books?

Title of Ancient

Book

Date It was

Written

Date of Earliest

Manuscrip

Number of

Manuscripts

Homer’s Illiad 700 B.C. unknown 643

History of History of

Herodotus425 B.C. A.D. 900 8

Josephus’ Jewish

WarsA.D. 70 A.D. 400 9

Histories of Tacitus A.D. 100 A.D. 900 2

New Testament A.D. 35-100 A.D. 125 5,735

� Uncial – formal style of writing that resembles our capital letters (uniform in height)height)

Codex Sinaiticus (350 AD) Codex Vaticanus 350 AD

� Set by God rather than man or the Catholic Church

� “The books of the bible possess their own authority and indeed had this authority long before there were any councils of the church. The teachings of the Roman Catholic Church completely ignore this important Catholic Church completely ignore this important point” (Lightfoot; How We Got the Bible pg. 82).

� Tobit

� Judith

� The Additions to the Book of Esther

� The Wisdom of Solomon

� Ecclesiasticus� Ecclesiasticus

� Baruch

� The Letter of Jeremiah

� The Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men

� Susanna

� Bel and the Dragon

� 1 Maccabees

� 2 Maccabees