You are hereHomeBARSummer 2020How Old Are the Oldest Christian Manuscripts? Portions of this essay are adapted from Brent Nongbri, God’s Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2018). Reproduced by permission. Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.