There were VERY few copies of the original Scriptures.
That is what I said.
I was correct! There were very few copies and they were kept separately from each other, before the first Bible.
You post that there were several thousand. To me, that is still very few, since there are literally MILLIONS of Bibles available now.
A full, complete Bible was RARE prior to the printing press.
Such works were hand made, and they were PRICELESS and kept under lock and key for good reason.
The thousands of copies and fragments of copies of the scriptures remaining today prove otherwise...
And if many thousands survived, think of the hundreds of thousands or more that would have perished in the process...