Toward the New Testament Canon as Fourth-Century Invention: The Scriptural List of Athanasius and Its Reverberations

Scholarship on the New Testament canon regularly relies on criterial and reception-historical methodologies to antedate the Christian scriptural collection well before its first advocacy as a “rule” of scripture in the 39th Festal Letter of Athanasius of Alexandria (367 CE). Pushing back against the...

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Main Author: Heaton, Robert D. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Religion & theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 30, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 30-54
Further subjects:B Shepherd of Hermas
B Eusebius
B Athanasius
B invented history
B Jerome
B New Testament
B canon lists
B Biblical Canon
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