athanasius, bishop of alexandria decided which books to include in the canon of the new testament.
athanasius, bishop of alexandria decided which books to include in the canon of the new testament.
who decided which books to include in the canon of the new testament?
athanasius, bishop of alexandria
the protestant old testament of today has a 39-book canon – the number of books (though not the content) varies from the jewish tanakh only because of a different method of division – while the roman catholic church recognizes 46 books (51 books with some books combined into 46 books) as the canonical old testament. the eastern orthodox churches recognize 3 maccabees, 1 esdras, prayer of manasseh and psalm 151 in addition to the catholic canon. some include 2 esdras. the anglican church also recognizes a longer canon. the term "hebrew scriptures" is often used as being synonymous with the protestant old testament, since the surviving scriptures in hebrew include only those books, while catholics and orthodox include additional texts that have not survived in hebrew. both catholics and protestants (as well as greek orthodox) have the same 27-book new testament canon.
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the canon of the new testament is the set of books christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the new testament of the christian bible. for most, it is an agreed-upon list of twenty-seven books that includes the canonical gospels, acts, letters of the apostles, and revelation. the books of the canon of the new testament were written before 120 ad.
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