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.
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- Athanasius: Festal Letter 39 (Excerpts) 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 A long article with a comments on each Apocryphal book.
- Anabaptists: How the Canon of the Bible Came to Us 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.
- The Old Testament of the Early Church Revisited Critical perspective by Albert Sundberg, Jr.
- The Bible, Church, Tradition, & Canon Articles and resources.
- The Canon of Scripture Detailed information on the history of the canon of the Bible.
- Evangelicals and The Canon of the New Testament Questions the process by which evangelicals have judged the canon.
- The Canon of the New Testament Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society article by Simon Kistemaker provides historical survey and affirms the traditional canon.