Trying to find early manuscripts of the Bible's New Testament? Dr. Dan Wallace of Dallas Theological Seminary along with team have set out since 2002 to find, digitize, organize, and make accessible to anyone looking for answers through The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. There mission:
The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM), under the umbrella of The Center for the Research of Early Christian Documents (CRECD), exists for the following purposes:
- To make digital photographs of extant Greek New Testament manuscripts so that such images can be preserved, duplicated without deterioration, and accessed by scholars doing textual research.
- To utilize developing technologies (OCR, MSI, etc.) to read these manuscripts and create exhaustive collations.
- To analyze individual scribal habits in order to better predict scribal tendencies in any given textual problem.
- To publish on various facets of New Testament textual criticism.
- To develop electronic tools for the examination and analysis of New Testament manuscripts.
- To cooperate with other institutes in the great and noble task of determining the wording of the autographa of the New Testament.
There most "Recent Projects:"
- National Library of Greece
- University of Michigan
- Chester Beatty Library
- Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
