How many copes of the original New Testament documents are there?

The New Testament is made up of twenty seven different books, letters, Gospels etc. They were all originally written in Greek, and had to be copied by hand until the invention of the printing press. There are over five thousand six hundred Greek manuscripts of part or all of the New Testament. There are also ten thousand manuscripts of the Vulgate - an early translation into Latin, and nine thousand three hundred other Latin versions. In all, we have about twenty five thousand hand copied manuscripts of parts of the New Testament.

In 'The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict', Josh McDowell cites for comparison Homer's 'Iliad'. There are six hundred and forty three manuscript copies of the Iliad. Or consider the 'Gallic Wars', from roughly the same time as the New Testament, written by Julius Caesar. Today, there are only about ten copies of it altogether.

The New Testament documents were the most copied, and most widely circulated, of any ancient manuscripts. No other documents from the same period of time come anywhere near having as many copies. Next.