How the Bible Survived 2,000 Years

The Bible is the most copied, most translated, most distributed book in human history. But how did it travel from ancient scrolls to your phone? The answer involves centuries of painstaking effort, remarkable devotion, and an extraordinary track record of accuracy.

The New Testament books were written between roughly 50 and 100 AD. They were not written as one unified volume — they were individual letters, historical accounts, and documents circulated among early churches. Paul would write a letter to a church in Corinth, and that church would copy it and send it to the next city. The process repeated across the Roman world.