It is amazing that we know anything of the New Testament. The early church had no great libraries or sanctuaries in which to store its books. Persecution began early and continued for a few hundred years. During the first three hundred years of persecution and the years after of freedom, the New Testament was continuously copied and recopied as believers held fervently to the only thing that could sustain them ��� the revealed Word of God. A study of the transmission of the Bible during this time period reveals much of how we got the Bible that we have today. Read of the amazing number of ancient manuscripts that have been discovered so far. Learn the names and characteristics of the more famous and important of these ancient manuscripts (with pictures of sample pages).

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