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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (59438)	10/6/2014 2:42:00 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By Greg or e Respond to of 69300

You must be referring to the Qumran texts. Yes, they probably copied about 150 BC. However, that's pretty old for ancient texts. Most of the other ancient texts we have are much more recent. Using your (il)logic we should claim that all of Greek history was fiction written less than a thousand years ago. Because we don't have any ancient Greek texts other than those that copied by Christian monks less than thousand years ago: Exactly how old are the Greek texts we use to translate the works of Homer and Hesiod? Although The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer are assumed to date from the mid-eighth century BCE (750 BCE), the translations that we are accustomed to seeing today are taken from the earliest known complete manuscripts which are from the eleventh century CE. ....Likewise, the extant poems of Hesiod are taken from manuscripts that date from the eleventh to the fourteenth century CE. ------------------ We have 5000 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament and they come within 100 to 150 years after the original. We only have 7 manuscripts for the dialogs of Plato and the gap from the original composition is 1200 years. For Aristotle we have only 5 extant manuscripts separated by 1000 years from the date of the composition. For the Annals of Tacitus there is one manuscript and it is separated by 750 years from the original. Yet no scholar would doubt the text of Plato, Aristotle or Tacitus as being totally corrupted and worthless. The text we have for the New Testament is over 99% accuracy and there are no major doctrinal differences in the Greek manuscripts. biblocality.com.