(March 14, 2020 at 6:01 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(March 14, 2020 at 12:09 am)Jehanne Wrote: Let's start over, okay? (If, of course, such is even possible with you.) If you do not want to give your views on the earliest sources of the New Testament, well, that's fine. I do not really have any more to say to you if that is the case. Paper was, of course, invented in China, but medieval Europe used, for the most part, parchment. The New Testament was written, originally, in Greek, all of it; Jesus and his followers, of course, spoke Aramaic. Later on scribes began translating and copying the New Testament into Latin, Coptic, Syriac, etc., but, the modern reconstruction of the New Testament that modern scholars all use is based upon the original Greek manuscripts, not, of course, of the original New Testament documents (none of which exist), but the 2nd, 3rd and 4th century Greek manuscripts.
Good luck to you, Jehanne. I've had almost this exact convo with Drich before. He doesn't understand (or refuses to accept) the difference between a complete NT manuscript and a manuscript fragment the size of a sticky note that contains 11 words of text.
Boru
And, it's right here:
Wikipedia -- Biblical manuscript