Directory of Canons Resources

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Category Description for Bible/Canons

Canon means an authoritative rule or list. The canon of the Bible refers to an authoritative list of books of the Bible.

This category is for sites about the canon and about how the various books of the Bible were chosen or, as some would prefer to phrase it, how they were recognized as authoritative and therefore came to be included in the Bible. Also included here are sites with lists of the books contained in various canons, as some branches of Christianity have differences in the books deemed canonical.

Resources in This Category

• Anabaptists: How the Canon of the Bible Came to Us

  http://www.anabaptists.org/history/howwegot.html
  The authority of Scripture and the choice of a canon. Not all the information is written by Anabaptists, although the information is on their site.

• Athanasius: Festal Letter 39 (Excerpts)

  http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.xxv.iii.iii.xxv.html
  In this historic letter written for Easter 367 A.D., the Bishop of Alexandria mentions all the books of the Bible in their current order.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Apocrypha

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01601a.htm
  A long article with a comments on each Apocryphal book.

• Evangelicals and The Canon of the New Testament

  http://bible.org/article/evangelicals-and-canon-new-testament/
  Questions the process by which evangelicals have judged the canon.

• The Bible, Church, Tradition, & Canon

  http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2006/11/bible-church-tradition-canon-index.html
  Articles and resources.

• The Canon of Scripture

  http://www.bible-researcher.com/canon.html
  Detailed information on the history of the canon of the Bible.

• The Canon of the New Testament

  http://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/20/20-1/20-1-pp003-014_JETS.pdf
  Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society article by Simon Kistemaker provides historical survey and affirms the traditional canon.

• The Old Testament of the Early Church Revisited

  http://department.monm.edu/classics/Speel_Festschrift/sundbergJr.htm
  Critical perspective by Albert Sundberg, Jr.

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