http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Before-Gospels-Christians-Remembered-ebook/dp/B00Z71VJJS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459792996&sr=8-1&keywords=bart+ehrmanJesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Saviorhttps://carm.org/manuscript-evidenceAuthor DateWritten Earliest Copy Approximate Time Span between original & copy Number of Copies Accuracy of CopiesLucretius died 55 or 53 B.C. 1,100 yrs 2 ----Pliny A.D. 61-113 A.D. 850 750 yrs 7 ----Plato 427-347 B.C. A.D. 900 1,200 yrs 7 ----Demosthenes 4th Cent. B.C. A.D. 1100 800 yrs 8 ----Herodotus 480-425 B.C. A.D. 900 1,300 yrs 8 ----Suetonius A.D. 75-160 A.D. 950 800 yrs 8 ----Thucydides 460-400 B.C. A.D. 900 1,300 yrs 8 ----Euripides 480-406 B.C. A.D. 1100 1,300 yrs 9 ----Aristophanes 450-385 B.C. A.D. 900 1200 10 ----Caesar 100-44 B.C. A.D. 900 1,000 10 ----Livy 59 BC-AD 17 ---- ??? 20 ----Tacitus circa A.D. 100 A.D. 1100 1,000 yrs 20 ----Aristotle 384-322 B.C. A.D. 1100 1,400 49 ----Sophocles 496-406 B.C. A.D. 1000 1,400 yrs 193 ----Homer (Iliad) 900 B.C. 400 B.C. 500 yrs 643 95%NewTestament 1st Cent. A.D. (A.D. 50-100) 2nd Cent. A.D.(c. A.D. 130 f.) less than 100 years 5600 99.5%Bart Erhmans book is a joke if you consider all the other classical manuscript as you could not consider anything history
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