The earliest New Testament papyri confirm an ancient Alexandrian textual stream while providing no evidence for a developed Byzantine text.
How the Early Papyri Support Only the Alexandrian Type of New Testament Texts and Not the Byzantine Texts
The Discovery and Significance of the Early New Testament Papyri
Early New Testament papyri anchor the biblical text in the second and third centuries and confirm its stable historical transmission.
The Alexandrian Texts as the Foremost Witnesses to the Original Greek New Testament Texts
Early papyri and codices show why the Alexandrian tradition gives the strongest documentary access to the original Greek New Testament.
The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
The New Testament is historically reliable through eyewitness testimony, archaeology, early manuscripts, and recoverable apostolic wording.
Multispectral Imaging of Damaged Papyri: Recent Advances in Reading P45 and P66
Multispectral imaging clarifies damaged readings in P45 and P66 while strengthening the documentary method of New Testament textual criticism.
Tracing the Transmission: The Journey of the New Testament Text Through the Centuries
A documentary history of how the New Testament text was copied, varied, preserved, and restored from the autographs to modern Greek editions.
The Uncial Manuscripts: A Forgotten Treasure of the New Testament
Uncial codices preserve a vast, early, and testable New Testament text, bridging the papyri and minuscules with documentary force.
Papyrus 66 and Its Witness to the Johannine Text
Papyrus 66, an early second-century codex of John, reveals a largely Alexandrian text and proves that the Johannine Gospel was stable and widely used soon after composition.
Why You Can Trust the Biblical Gospels
The Gospels rest on eyewitness testimony, historical accuracy, early manuscripts, and a text recoverable through documentary evidence.
The Scribe and Correctors of P66 (Papyrus 66)
P66 Papyrus 66 [150 C.E.] is of the Alexandrian text-type (more trusted). P66 comes to us by way of a professional scribe (practiced calligraphic hand, pagination numbers), a major corrector and a minor corrector.
