There is plenty. Let me ask you what is the earliest manuscript of Plato? Of Herodotus or Pliny? Or Caesar? Of Tacitus? I get so tired of this no manuscripts before the second century dribble by mythicists. It is unmitigated asininity.
Author
Written
Earliest Copy
Time Span
# Mss.
Caesar
100-44 B.C.
900 A.D.
1,000 yrs
10
Plato
427-347 B.C.
900 A.D.
1,200 yrs
7
Thucydides
460-400 B.C.
900 A.D.
1,300 yrs
8
Tacitus
100 A.D.
1100 A.D.
1,000 yrs
20
Suetonius
75-160 A.D.
950 A.D.
800 yrs
8
Homer (Iliad)
900 B.C.
400 B.C.
500 yrs
643
New Testament
40-100 A.D.
125 A.D.
25-50 yrs
24,000
Author
Written
Earliest Copy
Time Span
# Mss.
Caesar
100-44 B.C.
900 A.D.
1,000 yrs
10
Plato
427-347 B.C.
900 A.D.
1,200 yrs
7
Thucydides
460-400 B.C.
900 A.D.
1,300 yrs
8
Tacitus
100 A.D.
1100 A.D.
1,000 yrs
20
Suetonius
75-160 A.D.
950 A.D.
800 yrs
8
Homer (Iliad)
900 B.C.
400 B.C.
500 yrs
643
New Testament
40-100 A.D.
125 A.D.
25-50 yrs
24,000
TG Baker comments on Debunking Christianity about the lack of early copies of old manuscripts for numerous texts other than the New Testament.
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