A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible. The English...
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The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions:...
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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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New Testament (category Biblical exegesis)
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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of 692. The Catholic Church provided a conciliar definition of its biblical canon in 382 at the (local) Council of Rome (based upon the Decretum Gelasianum...
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Look up canon or Canon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Canon or Canons may refer to: Canon (fiction), the material accepted as officially written by...
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The biblical apocrypha (from Ancient Greek ἀπόκρυφος (apókruphos) 'hidden') denotes the collection of apocryphal ancient books thought to have been written...
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between 196 and 175 BCE (and is not included in the Jewish canon), includes a list of names of biblical figures (44–50) in the same order as is found in the...
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Luther's canon is the biblical canon attributed to Martin Luther, which has influenced Protestants since the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. While...
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Council of Laodicea (redirect from Canons of Laodicea)
neophytes (canons 45–48) Specifying a biblical canon (canons 59–60) The 59th canon forbade the readings in churches of uncanonical books. The 60th canon listed...
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Old Testament (section Protestant canon)
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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Catholic Bible (section Canon law)
"Pseudo-Josephus" or "Joseph ben Gurion" (Yosēf walda Koryon). Biblical canon Christian biblical canons Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Council of Trent...
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First Council of Nicaea (section Biblical canon)
There is no record of any discussion of the biblical canon at the council. The development of the biblical canon was nearly complete (with exceptions known...
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Biblical inerrancy is the belief that the Bible "is without error or fault in all its teaching"; or, at least, that "Scripture in the original manuscripts...
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Scholarship: Its Origin, Evidential Basis, and Application". Currents in Biblical Research. 22 (1): 8. doi:10.1177/1476993X231210004. ISSN 1476-993X. Oxford...
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as the principal language for church services. The Tewahedo Church Biblical Canon contains 81 books, including almost all of those which are accepted...
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Fifty Bibles of Constantine (section Biblical canon)
this commission may have provided motivation for the development of the canon lists and that Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus are possible surviving...
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Apocrypha are biblical or related writings not forming part of the accepted canon of scripture, some of which might be of doubtful authorship or authenticity...
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Deuterocanonical books (category Development of the Christian biblical canon)
Epistle of Barnabas The Didache Bible portal Biblical apocrypha Biblical canon Pseudepigrapha Ancient Canon Lists From Medieval Latin: deutero-canonicus...
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According to Protestant biblical scholar, F.F. Bruce, the commissioning of the Vulgate was a key moment in fixing the biblical canon in the West. Nonetheless...
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Constitutions and the Apostolic Canons the former of which without the Apostolic Canons included is in the church's 81-book canon as the Didascalia. The nature...
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Biblical inspiration is the doctrine in Christian theology that the human writers and canonizers of the Bible were led by God with the result that their...
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The Passion of the Christ (section Biblical canon)
The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Mel Gibson. It stars Jim Caviezel as Jesus...
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Rabbi Akiva (section Biblical canon)
offspring as illegitimate. For similar reasons, Akiva rules leniently in the Biblical ordinance of Kil'ayim; nearly every chapter in the treatise of that name...
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The New Church (Swedenborgian) (section Biblical canon)
supports his statements with biblical passages. The books with this inner, spiritual meaning forms the New Church biblical canon. According to Swedenborg...
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Churches with shared beliefs, liturgy, and history. The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is common to both churches, as is Orthodox Tewahedo music. The Ethiopian...
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church at times has included the Third Epistle to the Corinthians in its biblical canon, but does not always list it with the other 27 canonical New Testament...
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Religious text (redirect from The Canon of Scripture)
ISBN 978-0-567-12419-7. Gallagher, Edmon L.; Meade, John D. (2017). The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity: Texts and Analysis. Oxford University...
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