• A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible. The English...
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    The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions:...
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    Bible (redirect from Biblical)
    Bible by a particular religious tradition or community is called a biblical canon. Believers in the Bible generally consider it to be a product of divine...
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  • The Old Testament is the first section of the two-part Christian biblical canon; the second section is the New Testament. The Old Testament includes the...
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  • between 196 and 175 BCE (and is not included in the Jewish canon), includes a list of names of biblical figures (44–50) in the same order as is found in the...
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  • of 692. The Catholic Church provided a conciliar definition of its biblical canon in 382 at the (local) Council of Rome (based upon the Decretum Gelasianum...
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  • New Testament (category Biblical exegesis)
    The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events relating...
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  • The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh...
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    The biblical apocrypha (from Ancient Greek ἀπόκρυφος (apókruphos) 'hidden') denotes the collection of apocryphal ancient books thought to have been written...
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    "Pseudo-Josephus" or "Joseph ben Gurion" (Yosēf walda Koryon). Biblical canon Christian biblical canons Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Council of Trent...
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    Luther's canon is the biblical canon attributed to Martin Luther, which has influenced Protestants since the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. While...
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    Biblical inspiration is the doctrine in Christian theology that the human writers and canonizers of the Bible were led by God with the result that their...
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  • Deuterocanonical books (category Development of the Christian biblical canon)
    books from both the protocanonical books (the books of the Hebrew canon) and the biblical apocrypha (books of Jewish origin that were sometimes read in Christian...
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    neophytes (canons 45–48) Specifying a biblical canon (canons 59–60) The 59th canon forbade the readings in churches of uncanonical books. The 60th canon listed...
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    this commission may have provided motivation for the development of the canon lists and that Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus are possible surviving...
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  • Biblical inerrancy is the belief that the Bible "is without error or fault in all its teaching"; or, at least, that "Scripture in the original manuscripts...
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    There is no record of any discussion of the biblical canon at the council. The development of the biblical canon was nearly complete (with exceptions known...
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    as the principal language for church services. The Tewahedo Church Biblical Canon contains 81 books, including almost all of those which are accepted...
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    Tewahedo Church. Retrieved 23 January 2012. Cowley, R.W. (1974). "The Biblical Canon Of The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Today". Ostkirchliche Studien. 23:...
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  • Canonical (redirect from Non-canon)
    regulations governing a Christian church or community Canonical texts or biblical canon, the texts accepted as part of the Bible Canonical gospel, the four...
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    Apocrypha are biblical or related writings not forming part of the accepted canon of Scripture. While some might be of doubtful authorship or authenticity...
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  • Scholarship: Its Origin, Evidential Basis, and Application". Currents in Biblical Research. 22 (1): 8. doi:10.1177/1476993X231210004. ISSN 1476-993X. Oxford...
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    According to Protestant biblical scholar, F.F. Bruce, the commissioning of the Vulgate was a key moment in fixing the biblical canon in the West. Nonetheless...
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  • Look up canon or Canon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Canon or Canons may refer to: Canon (fiction), the material accepted as officially written by...
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    supports his statements with biblical passages. The books with this inner, spiritual meaning forms the New Church biblical canon. According to Swedenborg...
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    church at times has included the Third Epistle to the Corinthians in its biblical canon, but does not always list it with the other 27 canonical New Testament...
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  • Biblical literalism or biblicism is a term used differently by different authors concerning biblical interpretation. It can equate to the dictionary definition...
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    sometimes called canon criticism or the canonical approach, is a way of interpreting the Bible that focuses on the text of the biblical canon itself as a finished...
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    canon as already closed. Pope Damasus I's Council of Rome in 382, if the Decretum Gelasianum is correctly associated with it, issued a biblical canon...
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    by, questions raised by biblical inerrancy, biblical infallibility, biblical interpretation, biblical criticism, and biblical law in Christianity. While...
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