Print this pageMANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
Compared with other authors and works of antiquity
| Author | When Written | Earliest Copy | Time Span | No. of Copies |
| Caesar | 100-44 B.C. | A.D. 900 | 1,000 years | 10 |
| Livy | 59 B.C.-A.D. 17 | 20 | ||
| Plato(Tetralogies) | 427-347 B.C. | A.D. 900 | 1,200 years | 7 |
| Tacitus (Annals) | A.D. 100 | A.D. 1100 | 1,000 years | 20 (-) |
| Pliney the Younger (History) | A.D. 61-113 | A.D. 850 | 750 years | 7 |
| Thucydides (History) | 460-400 B.C. | A.D. 900 | 1,300 years | 8 |
| Suetonius (De Vita Caesarun) | A.D. 75-160 | A.D. 950 | 800 years | 8 |
| Herodotus (History) | 480-425 B.C. | A.D. 900 | 1,300 years | 8 |
| Horace | 900 years | |||
| Sophocles | 496-406 B.C. | A.D. 1000 | 1,400 years | 193 |
| Lucretius | Died 55 or 53 B.C. | 1,100 years | 2 | |
| Catullus | 54 B.C. | A.D. 1550 | 1,600 years | 3 |
| Euripides | 480-406 B.C. | A.D. 1100 | 1,500 years | 9 |
| Demosthenes | 383-322 B.C. | A.D. 1100 | 1,300 years | 200 * |
| Aristotle | 384-322 B.C. | A.D. 1100 | 1,400 years | 49 t |
| Aristophanes | 450-385 B.C. | A.D. 900 | 1,200 years | 10 |
| Homer (Iliad) | 900 B.C. | 400 B.C. | 500 years | 643 |
| New Testament | 40-100 A.D. | 125 A.D. | 25 years | 24,000+ |
* All from one copy.
* Of any one work.
Compiled by Dr. Craig Hazen, Ph.D.,Head of Christian Apologetic Studies, BIOLA University, La Mirada, California
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