Reference work
How Many Greek New Testament Manuscripts Are There Really?
Institute for New Testament Textual Research discussion of manuscript-counting complexity in the NTVMR and Kurzgefasste Liste.
- Author
- Katie Leggett and Greg Paulson
- Publisher
- Institute for New Testament Textual Research
- Tradition
- Textual criticism
- Accessed
- 2026-06-18
Citation
Katie Leggett and Greg Paulson, “How Many Greek New Testament Manuscripts Are There Really? The Latest Numbers,” Institute for New Testament Textual Research, September 29, 2023.
Where this source is used
- The Bible is corruptedThe manuscripts differ in small ways, but the Gospel Christians held in Muhammad's day, which the Qur'an tells them to judge by, survives and can be read today.
- The Bible lost plain and precious truthsThe manuscripts show small, documented copying changes, not an early removal of doctrine, and the Bible already teaches what the Book of Mormon calls plain and precious.
- The reliability of the BibleVariants in the manuscripts are real and openly catalogued. They show a text copied many times in many places, which is why its earliest wording can be recovered.
- The reliability of the New TestamentPaul's letters preserve a summary of belief from within a few years of Jesus' death, the Gospels were written within living memory, and the text can be recovered with confidence.