Revelation First ≠ Revelation Early. The pre-70 date is the old argument (Robinson, 1976; Gentry, 1989); Revelation First is the priority thesis: the rest of the New Testament unfolds from the Apocalypse.
| Intersections | Papyrology and textual discovery: manuscripts, editions, new finds and redatings; New Testament scholarship: dating, authorship and literary dependence |
| Kind of evidence | manuscript imagescatalogue or metadata |
| Unit of record | a manuscript, classed as papyrus, majuscule, minuscule or lectionary and dated by century, with its images and a short description |
| Which texts | Greek New Testament manuscripts, with some Septuagint manuscripts (Rahlfs 961, Genesis on papyrus) |
| Method | high-resolution digital photography of manuscripts held by other institutions, catalogued and published online |
| Coverage | geography: holding institutions worldwide; period: manuscripts from the second century onward, as its century filter runs |
| What it finds | images of the Chester Beatty papyri P45, P46 and P47, three of the earliest and most extensive New Testament papyri, among its published collections; a guest post on new finds in P47, the Chester Beatty papyrus of Revelation |
| Its stated limits | none stated in the saved sources |
op the resource's own statement · 3p a third-party account · obs our observation · rd our reading. Hover a tag for its quote; each opens below with its source.
rd Papyrological inversion: P47, the Chester Beatty papyrus of Revelation, and the Pauline P46 are among its imaged papyri. The workstream sets the dates of surviving copies against the received order of composition; the images are where those copies can be read.
| Canonical name | Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts |
| Also known as | CSNTM |
| Address | https://www.csntm.org/ |
| Operator | Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, Plano, Texas; founder and Executive Director Daniel B. Wallace |
| Kind | a center that digitizes Greek New Testament manuscripts and publishes their images in a searchable digital manuscript collection |
| Lifecycle | active — digitizing, training interns and publishing; blog posts dated to 2026 |
| Count | 2045 results in the manuscript search as saved (as of 2026-10-30) op |
| Data access | images in its digital collection, on agreement to its Terms of Use and Copyright policy |
| Licence | its Terms of Use and Copyright policy (terms not read) |
| Versions and dates | read: 2026-10-30 |
| Observation | 2026-10-30: read |
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Record https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/csntm/ · entity https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/csntm/#entity · the census as data
@misc{rf-csntm2026,
editor = {Sharks, Lee},
title = {Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts},
howpublished = {Revelation First meta-aggregator, revelationfirst.com},
year = {2026},
note = {Compiled 2026-10-30; every field sourced and dated},
url = {https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/csntm/}
}