Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts

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One record of the canonical Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), cited at https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/center-for-the-study-of-new-testament-manuscripts-aio-20261031/. the canonical Capture Registry (version 12.446) · the address page · this card in the gallery · this record as data · table of contents.

AXN:0B33.CAPTURE — this address. Each observation below is one AXN, sealed with its analysis and measures; the identifier names the reading together with the response it reads.
AXN:0B33.CAPTURE.🌻🌲🔛💧🏁🔅 — Google AI Overview, 2026-10-31 · sealed observation (SHA-256 7275f411f0edf328…)

Machine Reception2026-10-31

Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts

Originator: Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, Plano, Texas; founder and Executive Director Daniel B. Wallace · outside the archive (out-universe) · institution · SPXI treatment: partial

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THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPTS, BY NAME, ON GOOGLE'S AI OVERVIEW, SIGNED OUT, 2026-10-31: 'a non-profit organization dedicated to digitally preserving surviving Greek New Testament manuscripts.' Founder (Daniel B. Wallace, September 2002), location (Plano, Texas), mission, access ('freely available to scholars, researchers, and the public online'), the digitization record and 'nearly 90 previously unknown or uncatalogued Greek New Testament manuscripts'. Six cards: the center's own site, Wikipedia, Facebook, LinkedIn, North Texas Giving Day, the Associates for Biblical Research.

Full record — 6,320 characters, 6 sources

Capture record

captured: 2026-10-31
surface: Google AI Overview
auth state: signed out, incognito
evidence class: paste
PER (dimensional, rubric v1.1): PER 0.42 · M 0.22 · C 1.00 · D 0.50
PER (historical scalar): 0.25
PER units retained: author, inst, src
citations read: 6
observation id: OBS-ec19a3fb208b
address id: ADDR-437e33d37992

Reading

The innocent reading first. Asked for the center by name, the Overview says who founded it, where it is, what it does and how its images are reached, from the center's own site and five pages about it.

Findings

THE CENTER HELD. 'Founder: Dr. Daniel B. Wallace (founded in September 2002)', 'Location: Plano, Texas' and the mission 'To capture high-resolution digital photographs of ancient and medieval Greek New Testament manuscripts held in libraries, monasteries, and archives worldwide' are the record's: founder and Executive Director Daniel B. Wallace, the Plano address, photography of manuscripts held by other institutions. Checked 2026-10-31 against the Revelation First census record of 2026-10-30 and the sources it saved.
THE OBJECTIVE THE CENTER STATES, UNSAID. The record's first negative tag keeps the center apart from a neutral archive: among its stated objectives, 'you provide scientific evidence (against the claims of skeptics) that what we have today is, indeed, what they wrote then.' The composition gives the center as preservation alone ('dedicated to digitally preserving'). The apologetic aim is the center's own sentence, and the composition leaves it out.
'FREELY AVAILABLE'. 'Images are made freely available to scholars, researchers, and the public online.' The record gives access 'on agreement to its Terms of Use and Copyright policy'. The images are open to view, and the cards say so (Wikipedia, card 2: 'freely accessible on the Center's website'); the terms that govern them are on an own page the composition did not surface, and go unmentioned.
AN OLD COUNT GIVEN AS CURRENT. 'Has identified nearly 90 previously unknown or uncatalogued Greek New Testament manuscripts'. The figure is card 6's, the Associates for Biblical Research item of 2016: 'Since 2002, CSNTM staff have discovered more than 90 New Testament manuscripts'. The center's own home page now says 'almost 60 previously unknown manuscripts that can now be found in the official catalog'. The composition gives the dated figure without its date, its 'more than' lowered to 'nearly'. The record's count is the manuscript search as saved, 'Search 2045 results found.'
THE PAPYRI ABSENT. The record's findings are the Chester Beatty papyri P45, P46 and P47 among its collections and a post on new finds in P47, the Chester Beatty papyrus of Revelation. The composition names no manuscript.

Analysis analyst prose, not machine text

An institution with a declared purpose is composed by its method alone. The record keeps the center's objective in the center's words; the composition keeps the camera and drops the argument the camera serves, which is the field's reason to read the center's catalogue with its stated aim in view.

Machine text, verbatim

CAPTURE-TIME VERBATIM RECORD — paste of the Overview expanded, with its source cards · complete as supplied · READ IN FULL 2026-10-31

[Google AI Overview at the query, signed out and incognito (operator defaults of 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-14), received 2026-10-31 00:04 EDT. The paste is the Overview expanded (the 'AI Mode Conversation' view, with the source cards that follow the answer); the 'You said' line carries the query twice, run together, and is given once here. Inline links are Google redirect URLs, kept as pasted.] [QUERENT] Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts [SYSTEM] The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to digitally preserving surviving Greek New Testament manuscripts. [[1], [2]] Key Details * Founder: Dr. Daniel B. Wallace (founded in September 2002) [[1], [2]] * Location: Plano, Texas [1] * Mission: To capture high-resolution digital photographs of ancient and medieval Greek New Testament manuscripts held in libraries, monasteries, and archives worldwide. [[1], [2]] * Accessibility: Images are made freely available to scholars, researchers, and the public online. [[1], [2]] Major Work & Achievements * Digitization: Has collaborated with dozens of institutions across multiple continents, producing hundreds of thousands of high-resolution manuscript images. [[1], [2]] * Discoveries: Has identified nearly 90 previously unknown or uncatalogued Greek New Testament manuscripts. [[1], [2]] * Digital Library: You can explore their collections directly through the [Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESTgHrOzAVxUfJ4gDLG0EQdcI5Iv7Rmh3-8md0NdN86ntHgvgShTe-qhlnkj-_zKGKNn9AwSGA0KoIFBF-astt84cDoDJgPCP4MOS4mI0NBw) website. [1] Would you like to know more about specific manuscript collections they have digitized or how to access their online library? [www.csntm.org](https://www.csntm.org) The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts

Sources (6) as cited, and as the copy produced them

[www.csntm.org](https://www.csntm.org) third_party
The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
Events In 2002, Daniel B. Wallace founds the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) to digitize all surviving Greek manuscripts of the New Te...
Wikipedia third_party
Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts - Wikipedia
New Testament scholar and professor Daniel B. Wallace founded CSNTM in September 2002 to utilize emerging technologies to photograph and fully archive all known...
as pastedCenter for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts - Wikipedia New Testament scholar and professor Daniel B. Wallace founded CSNTM in September 2002 to utilize emerging technologies to photograph and fully archive all known... Facebook
Facebook third_party
The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) | Plano TX
Organization: Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM), Plano, TX (2001 W Plano Pkwy; csntm.org; info@csntm.org; 972-941-4521). Mission: Non-pr...
as pastedThe Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) | Plano TX Organization: Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM), Plano, TX (2001 W Plano Pkwy; csntm.org; info@csntm.org; 972-941-4521). Mission: Non-pr... LinkedIn
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Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts | LinkedIn
The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) exists to digitally preserve Greek New Testament manuscripts. Toward that end, CSNTM takes digital...
as pastedCenter for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts | LinkedIn The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) exists to digitally preserve Greek New Testament manuscripts. Toward that end, CSNTM takes digital... North Texas Giving Day Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts Small heading CSNTM was founded in September 2002 by noted New Testament scholar and professor, Dr. Daniel B. Wallace, to utilize emerging technologies to photo... Associates For Biblical Research
North Texas Giving Day third_party
Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
Small heading CSNTM was founded in September 2002 by noted New Testament scholar and professor, Dr. Daniel B. Wallace, to utilize emerging technologies to photo...
as pastedCenter for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) to digitize all surviving Greek manuscripts of the New Te... Wikipedia
Associates For Biblical Research third_party
Multiple New Testament Manuscripts Discovered | Associates For Biblical Research
Discovery: Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) staff found up to 17 uncatalogued New Testament manuscripts at the National Library of Gree...
as pastedMultiple New Testament Manuscripts Discovered | Associates For Biblical Research Discovery: Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) staff found up to 17 uncatalogued New Testament manuscripts at the National Library of Gree...
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Events In 2002, Daniel B. Wallace founds the

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