re ancient books in article apr athos rutgers edu cobb alexia lis uiuc edu mike cobb writes but since the manuscripts are so close to the actual event especially as compared with ancient non christian history could it help show that we have accurate copies of the original texts that s a very weak argument due the lack with regard to critical events of independent supporting texts as for the dating of the oldest extant texts of the nt how would you feel about the us civil war in a couple of thousand years if the only extant text was written about now now adjust for a largely illiterate population and one in which every copy of a manuscript is done by hand hal hal heydt analyst pacific bell if you think the system is working ask someone who s waiting for a prompt whheydt pbhya pacbell com
