I am glad to have learned about this very interesting text, and you tell its story well. However, the nonsense about Christians being afraid of this or many other variant manuscripts is tendentious. Did you even read Deshowitz's paper, which clearly describes Christians' differing opinions about Deuteronomy and its compositions. Not to mention the role in the New Testament of the hypothetical document known as "Q". "Inerrancy" or the hypothesis that the original manuscripts are perfect in every way is a minority opinion and doesn't rest on tradition.

You can do better than this, Jonathan.