Original sentence: 84), and "With this abundance of evidence, what can we say about the total number of variants known today.89-90).. Wingerd countered, "Bart Ehrman has created for the reader is a verbal and numerical illusion", summarising Ehrman's "highest estimate of the variants would average only 25 variants per manuscript (as compared to 300 per manuscript in John Mill's study).Also: Critiques of Hiwi al-Balkhi in the geonic period, see Hiwi_al-Balkhi#Criticism_of_the_Bible.Ehrman states the Greek New Testament by theologian John Mill identified some 30,000 places of variation (mainly spelling differences) from the oldest available texts  (p.Far more difficulties have been resolved by the discovery of more manuscripts than have been created by it".Perhaps, as I indicated earlier, it is best simply to leave the matter in comparative terms.Scholars differ significantly in their estimates—some say there are 200,000 variants known, some say 300,000, some say 400,000 or more.So while Bart Ehrman would have you believe that the increase in manuscript evidence has increased the problem, just the opposite is true.The increase in manuscript evidence has greatly reduced the problem.There are more variations among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament"(pp.We do not know for sure because, despite impressive developments in computer technology, no one has yet been able to count them all
Edited sentence: In 1707, the Greek New Testament by theologian John Mill identified some 30,000 places of variation (mainly spelling differences) from the oldest available texts.The critiques of the early Jewish scholar Hiwi al-Balkhi had already raised concern amongst rabbis of the geonic period