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How Did the Bible Come to Be? | Recommended Reading List on Canon Formation
Canon Formation

How Did the Bible Come to Be? | Recommended Reading List on Canon Formation

How did the Bible come to be?  In One Holy Book , I walked through some of the central steps of the "story" of canon formation and...
July 19, 2021
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The Biblical Canon Lists, Book Review
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The Biblical Canon Lists, Book Review

Title: The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity: Texts and Analysis Author: Edmon L. Gallagher and John D. Meade Publisher: Ox...
October 11, 2019
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How the Bible Came to Be (pt 9)
Biblical Canon

How the Bible Came to Be (pt 9)

The Result: One Holy Book  The result of this gradual process is the final form of the canonical text, or the Bible as we now have it. T...
August 18, 2017
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Biblical Canon

How the Bible Came to Be (pt 8)

Retrospective Criteria for Recognition  In our final section, we can consider some of the factors that the earliest churches used as they ...
August 17, 2017
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How the Bible Came to Be (pt 7)
Biblical Canon

How the Bible Came to Be (pt 7)

External Evidence for Closure In addition to this internal evidence , there are several lines of external evidence for the closure of the ...
August 4, 2017
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How the Bible Came to Be (pt 5)
Biblical Canon

How the Bible Came to Be (pt 5)

“Closing” the Canon: Discerning the Canonical Boundaries  We are now in a position to investigate the “closing” of the canon. Here we ask,...
March 13, 2017
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How the Bible Came to Be (pt 4)
Biblical Canon

How the Bible Came to Be (pt 4)

The Process of Canon Formation  Now that we have explored the catalysts for canon formation, we can outline the actual process. The Hebrew ...
March 6, 2017
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How the Bible Came to Be (pt 3)
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How the Bible Came to Be (pt 3)

Catalysts for Canon Formation  After demonstrating that the biblical canon came to be, we are in a better position to ask further, why did ...
February 27, 2017
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How the Bible Came to Be (pt 2)
Biblical Canon

How the Bible Came to Be (pt 2)

Evidence of Canon Formation One way to tell the story of the biblical canon is to begin with a basic point about the available physical evi...
February 20, 2017
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How the Bible Came to Be (part one)
Biblical Canon

How the Bible Came to Be (part one)

To Take Our Bible Into Our Hands Toward the end of the fourth century, a preacher named John Chrysostom was one of the first to begin c...
February 17, 2017
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The Shape of the Writings, Book Review
Book Review

The Shape of the Writings, Book Review

Title:   The Shape of the Writings Editors:  Julius Steinberg and Timothy J. Stone Publisher: Eisenbrauns, 2015 Price: $54.50 ( amz ...
November 11, 2016
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