manuscripts

    • Homer’s Iliad: 643 manuscripts remain, with the earliest one dating to 400 years after the original.
    • Julius Caesar’s The Gallic Wars: 10 manuscripts remain, with the earliest one dating to 1,000 years after the original.
    • Pliny Secundus’ Natural History: 7 manuscripts remain, with the earliest one dating to 750 years after the original.
    • Thucydides’ History: 8 manuscripts remain, with the earliest one dating to 1,300 years after the original.
    • Herodotus’ History: 8 manuscripts remain, with the earliest one dating to 1,350 years after the original.
    • Plato’s essays: 7 manuscripts remain, with the earliest one dating to 1,300 years after the original.
    • Tacitus’ Annals: 20 manuscripts remain, with the earliest one dating to 1,000 years after the original.6
  1. Josh McDowell, The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1999, 71–73.
  2. Josh McDowell, Evidence that Demands a Verdict, vol.1, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1979, 58–59.
  3. Ibid. 56–57.
  4. McDowell, The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict, 34–36.
  5. John Ryland’s Gospel of John fragment, John Ryland’s Library of Manchester, England. See also, Ibid., 38.
  6. McDowell, Evidence that Demands a Verdict, vol.1, 42.
  7. Ravi K. Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God? Word Publishing, 1994, 162.