Encountering the Manuscripts offers an expert's introduction to New Testament paleographyand textual criticism, giving readers a window into the transmission of the Bible in the earliest centuries of the church. Based on his exhaustiveexperience and study, author PhilipComfort explores scribal participationin the production of the earliest New Testament writings, gives an annotated list of all significant Greek manuscriptsand early versions and assigns dates for the earliest manuscripts, presents the history of textual variation in the early centuries of the church, and details variousmethods of recovering the original wording of the Greek New Testment.
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