Development of the New Testament canon Development of the New Testament canon 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. For the Orthodox, the recognition of these writings as authoritative was formalized in the Second Council of Trullan of 692. The Catholic Church made dogmatic definition upon its Biblical canon in 382 at
Bible translations into the languages of India script. The Western Punjabi Persian script New Testament of 1912 was revised in 1952 and some books of the Old Testament were published. In collaboration with "Church centric bible translation", Free Bibles India has published a Punjabi translation online. In 2011, the New Testament of New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released by Jehovah's Witnesses in Punjabi. It was published online (also offline in PDF format) with mobile versions released through "JW Library" application in App stores. In collaboration with "Church centric bible translation", Free Bibles India has published an Oriya translation online. Nathan Brown, a Baptist, translated