• 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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    Barber, Michael (6 March 2006). "Loose Canons: The Development of the Old Testament (Part 2)". Archived from the original on 7 December 2009. Retrieved...
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  • The canon of the New Testament is the set of books many modern Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian...
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  • Adrian Hastings, The Church in Africa, 1450-1950. Clarendon Press, 1995. Beckwith, R. T. (1986). The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church and Its...
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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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  • Hebrew Bible canon Development of the New Testament canon Development of the Old Testament canon History of ancient Israel and Judah Kings of Judah Missing...
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  • Development of the Hebrew Bible canon Development of the Old Testament canon Development of the New Testament canon Luther's canon "Canon", Lutheran Cyclopedia...
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    widely available in the churches' home countries of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Orthodox Tewahedo narrower Old Testament canon contains the entire established...
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    of the ancient Near East Chronology of Babylonia and Assyria Dating creation Development of the Hebrew Bible canon Development of the Old Testament canon...
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  • 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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  • Testament canon Development of the Old Testament canon Historical criticism Historicity of the Bible Jewish apocrypha List of Old Testament pseudepigrapha...
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    The Septuagint (/ˈsɛptjuədʒɪnt/ SEP-tew-ə-jint), sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Ancient Greek: Ἡ...
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  • "Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach". U. Mich. Barber, Michael (2006-03-04). "Loose Canons: The Development of the Old Testament (Part 1)". Archived from the original...
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    written in Aramaic. There are several versions of the New Testament in Aramaic languages: the Vetus Syra (Old Syriac), a translation from Greek into early...
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    biblical canon, it is widely regarded as the canon of the Lutheran Church. It differs from the 1546 Roman Catholic canon of the Council of Trent in that...
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    of the Old Testament (according to the Hebrew Bible canon, known especially to non-Protestant Christians as the protocanonical books) and 27 books of...
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    Apocrypha (redirect from List of apocrypha)
    and the like. Teachers connected with Palestine and familiar with the Hebrew canon (the protocanon) excluded from the canon all of the Old Testament not...
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    The Text of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), p. 20. Würthwein, The Text of the Old Testament, n. 28. Kurt and Barbara Aland, The Text...
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  • Biblical canon Development of the Hebrew Bible canon Development of the Old Testament canon Development of the New Testament canon Authorship of the Bible...
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  • Poetic Books (category Development of the Christian biblical canon)
    Sirach (included only in Catholic and Orthodox canons) Biblical canon Other major divisions of the Old Testament: Pentateuch Historical books Prophetic books...
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  • contemn the traditions aforesaid; let him be anathema. Metzger, Bruce M. (13 March 1997). The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance...
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    and the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. Chapters 1–30 of the book consist of three sermons or speeches delivered to the Israelites...
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  • Council or Synod of Jamnia which laid down the limits of the Old Testament canon." Other scholars have since joined in and today the theory is largely...
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  • the earliest known Christian canon of what he termed the "Old Testament", having traveled to Palestine (probably to the library at Caesarea Maritima)...
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    Bible (redirect from Old Bible)
    as the final canon occurred in the fourth century with a series of synods that produced a list of texts of the canon of the Old Testament and the New...
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    The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian Canon (Latin: Canon Muratori), is a copy of perhaps the oldest known list of most of the books of...
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  • Deuterocanonical books (category Development of the Christian biblical canon)
    books of the Old Testament by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East, but...
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  • scriptural canon, Judaism does not recognize the Christian New Testament. The relative importance of belief and practice constitute an important area of difference...
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    limiting the New Testament to the 27 books of the modern canon. Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant churches generally do not view the New Testament...
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    versions of the canon, including the 3rd-century BCE Septuagint text used in Second Temple Judaism, the Syriac Peshitta, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Dead...
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