A biblical canon is a list of books considered to be authoritative as scripture by a particular religious community.
Use this tag for questions about which books are included in the biblical canon, or how those books came to be chosen.
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Two Editions of Pelikan's "Whose Bible Is It?"
Yaroslav Pelikan's final book "Whose Bible Is It?" has two editions. The first edition came out in 2005 and was sub-titled "A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages." The second edition came out the year he died, and the sub-title changed to…
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How many books of the bible agreed on any Christian denomination?
How many books of the bible (includes the new testament) considered to be agreed on all denominations / movements? What are the basic books that considered holy for all?
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How difficult was it for the Roman controlled church of the fourth century on to suppress the alternative gospels e.g. the gospel of the Ebionites?
My research of the study of Christianity shows the Christian canon first formalized at the Council of Rome. This is pretty much 2 years after Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire in 380 with the Edict of Thessalonica. So…
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