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
Names and titles of God in the New Testament at . It is represented in Greek as "Ἁλληλουιά" wherein "ιά" (Hebrew יה) is an abbreviated form of the tetragrammaton. Most English Bibles, including those which contain "Yahweh" (such as the Jerusalem Bible) or a related form in the Old Testament, do not use the same form in the New Testament because it does not appear in the available Greek New Testament manuscripts. However, of over English translations of the Bible have been written, 23 use the forms "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" in the New Testament. Sacred Name Bibles are editions of the Bible that "consistently use Hebraic forms of God's