Considering other ancient documents, let's look at Caesar's "Gaelic Wars." The original he wrote in about 60 BC, but the earliest copy we have dates at about 900 AD---a gap of nearly 1,000 years. In addition to this, we only have 10 copies of his work---yet nobody questions the accuracy of the copies we have. By contrast, as mentioned before, we have over 5,000 copies of the Greek manuscript of the New Testament, some of them dating as early as 130 AD---which is a gap of only 40 to 60 years compared to nearly 1,000 years in the case of Caesar.

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