Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
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Author\tDate
Written\tEarliest Copy\tApproximate Time Span between original & copy\tNumber of Copies\tAccuracy of Copies
Lucretius\tdied 55 or 53 B.C.\t \t1,100 yrs\t2\t----
Pliny\tA.D. 61-113\tA.D. 850\t750 yrs\t7\t----
Plato\t427-347 B.C.\tA.D. 900\t1,200 yrs\t7\t----
Demosthenes\t4th Cent. B.C.\tA.D. 1100\t800 yrs\t8\t----
Herodotus\t480-425 B.C.\tA.D. 900\t1,300 yrs\t8\t----
Suetonius\tA.D. 75-160\tA.D. 950\t800 yrs\t8\t----
Thucydides\t460-400 B.C.\tA.D. 900\t1,300 yrs\t8\t----
Euripides\t480-406 B.C.\tA.D. 1100\t1,300 yrs\t9\t----
Aristophanes\t450-385 B.C.\tA.D. 900\t1200\t10\t----
Caesar\t100-44 B.C.\tA.D. 900\t1,000\t10\t----
Livy\t59 BC-AD 17\t----\t???\t20\t----
Tacitus\tcirca A.D. 100\tA.D. 1100\t1,000 yrs\t20\t----
Aristotle\t384-322 B.C.\tA.D. 1100\t1,400\t49\t----
Sophocles\t496-406 B.C.\tA.D. 1000\t1,400 yrs\t193\t----
Homer (Iliad)\t900 B.C.\t400 B.C.\t500 yrs\t643\t95%
New
Testament\t1st Cent. A.D. (A.D. 50-100)\t2nd Cent. A.D.
(c. A.D. 130 f.)\tless than 100 years\t5600\t99.5%
Bart Erhmans book is a joke if you consider all the other classical manuscript as you could not consider anything history