Bases Quote by William F. Albright

“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of…

— N.T. Wright

The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact, negligible, and…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

“While some of the earliest copies of non-biblical writings date to thousands of years later than their originals (Homer’s Odyssey is unusually good; only…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament.

— George Carlin

“Although there was no reliable way of dating periods, there was no shortage of people willing to try. The most well known early attempt30…

— Bill Bryson

Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars…

— Charlie Campbell

You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament.

— Steven Wright

“Many of the most obvious conflicts between science and religion involve timing issues—the dating of events in Earth’s history. Bible chronologies typically list Adam…

— David Barker

“What we think of as the twenty-seven books of “the” New Testament emerged out of these conflicts, and it was the side that won…

— Bart D. Ehrman

Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary.…

— Rajneesh

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

— Paul Ricoeur

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

— William Barclay