Development of the New Testament canon writers. (Books not attributed to these three are: Matthew, Mark, Luke, Acts, James, and Jude. The authorship of Hebrews has long been disputed.) Many modern Protestants point to four "Criteria for Canonicity" to justify the books that have been included in the Old and New Testament, which are judged to have satisfied the following: The basic factor for recognizing a book's canonicity for the New Testament was divine inspiration, and the chief test for this was apostolicity. The term "apostolic" as used for the test of canonicity does not necessarily mean apostolic authorship or derivation, but rather "apostolic authority". "Apostolic
John Lightfoot of Claudius)" was published later that year. In 1647 came "The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the Old Testament", followed in 1655 by "The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the New Testament", inscribed to Cromwell. He helped Brian Walton with the "Polyglot Bible" (1657). His own best-known work was the "Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae", in which the volume relating to the Gospel of Matthew appeared in 1658, that relating to the Gospel of Mark in 1663, and those relating to 1 Corinthians, John and Luke, in 1664, 1671 and 1674 respectively. The "Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae impensae in Acta Apostolorum