Dan Wallace—New Testament scholar, textual critic, and founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (which seeks to digitize all known Greek manuscripts of the New Testament)—identifies four differences between the Telephone Game and the ancient transmission of New Testament manuscripts.

I’ve turned Wallace’s summary into a little chart, which may make it easier to process at a glance and to pass along to others:

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