CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURE

NEW TESTAMENT RELIABILITY

The Bibliographical Test

AUTHOR

ORIGINAL

OLDEST COPY

TIME SPAN

COPIES

Homer
B.C. 900
B.C. 400
500 years
643
Sophocles
B.C. 496 - 406
A.D. 1000
1,450 years
193
Euripides
B.C. 480 - 406
A.D. 1100
1,550 years
9
Herodotus
B.C. 496 - 425
A.D. 900
1,350 years
8
Thucydides
B.C. 460 - 400
A.D. 900
1,300 years
8
Aristonphanes
B.C. 450 - 385
A.D. 900
1,300 years
10
Plato
B.C. 427 - 347
A.D. 900
1,300 years
7
Aristotle
B.C. 384 - 322
A.D. 900
1,300 years
49
Lucretius
B.C. 70 - 55
A.D. 1000
1,050 years
2
Catallus
B.C. 54
A.D. 1550
1,600 years
3
Pliny the Younger
A.D. 61 - 113
A.D. 850
750 years
7
Suetonius
A.D. 75 - 160
A.D. 950
800 years
8
Tacitus
A.D. 100
A.D. 1100
1000 years
20
NEW TESTAMENT
A.D. 40-100
A.D. 125 - 325
25 - 285 years
>13,000

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