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Henry Imler June 17th, 2008
If you have grown up in a Christian culture, or around members of a Christian culture, then you are familiar with the current Christian canon, the list of books that Christians dub the Bible. If you have met very many Christians outside of the Christian culture that you are most familiar with, you most likely have noticed that different Christians have different books in their canon. This is especially true when you look at the various canon lists that various ante-Nicene Christian groups. Ben C. Smith, at Thoughts on Antiquity has a great series on canonical lists, which I recommend reading though. In order to find the other posts in the series, scroll down to the bottom of the series page and browse through the trackbacks. While it would kill most of you to read though all of them, I highly recommend reading his posts on the Marcionite Canon, the Origenic Canon (part II), and Eusebian Canon.
These posts are a fascinating look at how the Christian canon developed over time.
Sample NT Canon Lists:
| Marcion | Apostolic Constitutions Canon | Modern Protestant/ Catholic/Greek Orthodox |
*We just have a list of these books, not the contents, so we cannot be sure that these works were the same works we have now, but it is likely that they are the same |
* The books of Hebrews was counted among the Pauline letters. |
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