Earliest known copy of a portion of New Testament found in Egypt

[XR-7]

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Using three methods of dating, this portion of Mark's Gospel is the earliest known copy of the New Testament being from 80-90 A.D., and also the first New Testament finding from the first century. If the dating is correct, this finding makes it tougher to prove that the New Testament is "not accurate" due to being too far from the events that took place. It's almost like someone writing something today about an event occurring in the 1960s.

Go ahead and post your "Oh no! A religion fight!" reactions now.

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[Steve5451²]

Is the text any different?

[blockguy™]

that's actually really cool

[XR-7]

Is the text any different?

I don't know. I'm assuming if they were able to identify it as the Gospel of Mark on discovery, it must be at least similar as well as written in its original language.

[otto-san]

cool. if nothing else, i think we can all agree that this is a super-neat historical piece

[Frequency]

Historical finds are always neat, no matter what you believe.

[Nonnel]

Jesus better not have had a stuff little beard like that

[BassCrossMegaman1]

neat, i always like hearing about historical artifacts, especially religious ones, being found

[Badger]

Neat

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[Cortunix³]

that's actually really cool