Contrary to popular opinion, the New Testament writings have the most textual integrity and historical reliability of all ancient literature. That’s ALL, bar none, and it isn’t even close.
The renowned English textual scholar Sir Fredric G. Kenyon stated definitively:
[The] last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the New Testament may be regarded as finally established (The Bible and Archaeology, pp. 288f.).
William Albright, famous archaeologist of Johns Hopkins University, also wrote:
The excessive skepticism shown toward the Bible by important schools of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries… has been progressively discredited. Discovery after discovery has established the accuracy of innu-
