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The canon of the New Testament is the set of books many modern Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian Bible.For most churches, the canon is an agreed-upon list of 27 books [1] that includes the canonical Gospels, Acts, letters attributed to various apostles, and Revelation.
List of the κεφαλαια and the first page of Gospel of John with the decorated headpiece in Minuscule 2444. A New Testament minuscule is a copy of a portion of the New Testament written in a small, cursive Greek script (developed from Uncial). [1]
A New Testament uncial is a section of the New Testament in Greek or Latin majuscule letters, written on parchment or vellum. This style of writing is called Biblical Uncial or Biblical Majuscule. New Testament uncials are distinct from other ancient texts based on the following differences:
The Old and New Testament canons did not develop independently of each other and most primary sources for the canon specify both Old and New Testament books. [ citation needed ] For the biblical scripture for both Testaments, canonically accepted in major traditions of Christendom , see § Canons of various traditions .
Grey represents continuous text manuscripts containing only New Testament portions Beige represents manuscripts with New Testament portions and a catena (quotations from church fathers) Light cyan represents manuscripts of single-author commentaries who included the full Scripture text.
The document contains a list of books the Roman church of his era considered authoritative — a predecessor to what would become the New Testament. A similar list concerning the Old Testament likely preceded it, but if such a section was written, it was not preserved in the fragment.
Canon quartus in quo III from the Cutbercht Gospels (8th century, Salzburg) The harmony of Ammonius suggested to Eusebius, as he says in his letter, the idea of drawing up ten tables ( kanones ) in which the sections in question were so classified as to show at a glance where each Gospel agreed with or differed from the others.
It is an Ancient Church Order, a collection of ancient ecclesiastical canons concerning the government and discipline of the Early Christian Church, allegedly written by the Apostles. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] This text is an appendix to the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions .