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Frederic G. Kenyon was British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar. Explore interesting quotes on news.
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“The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels were composed in different times and places over perhaps a third of a century, and for a time circulated separately among a number of other narratives of our Lord's life (of which the newly discovered fragment of an unknown gospel may have been one).”

Frederic G. Kenyon

Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter X, The Position Today, p. 133

“All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.”

Frederic G. Kenyon

Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 39

“The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.”

Frederic G. Kenyon

Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter VIII, The Age Of Discoveries, p. 87