Press Release on Albania Manuscripts

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Attached is the press release about the manuscripts discovered and photographed in Albania this past summer. Also, WFAA News, the Dallas ABC affiliate, is scheduled to air a short story on these manuscripts and the work of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts on Thursday, March 27, 2008.

Here's the Christianity Today Q&A interview.

random question here Dr Wallace, but it does have to do with manusrpts. Over at Dr Witheringtons blog, he did a post about the most skeptical veiws of Christian origins. He argued against many skeptics who conclude that not only are the Gospels unreliable, but so is Acts. Indeed, one of the skeptical commentors replied that there is a scholarly school now pushing strongly for a late date for the book of Acts. Sometime in the mid to late 2nd century. Here's my question:

Dr Witherington claims in his original post that there are manuscripts of Acts in Sydney I believe, that are dated no later than CE 125. I was simply wondering if you've heard of these manuscripts or not. Not that I doubt Dr. Witherington, "i've just never heard of these before. Thanks

I'm afraid that Dr. Witherington is mistaken. There is one New Testament papyrus in Australia, and it is of Acts, but it's from the third century. I contacted MacQuarie University in Sydney to see if there were any others, and learned that this was the only NT papyrus in the country.

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