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2. Development of the New Testament canon - Wikipedia

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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.

3. New Testament - Wikipedia

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   In attempting to determine the original text of the New Testament books, some modern textual critics have identified sections as additions of material, centuries after the gospel was written. These are called interpolations. In modern translations of the Bible, the results of textual criticism have led to certain verses, words and phrases being ...

4. Chronology of the Bible - Wikipedia

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   The Masoretic Text is the basis of modern Jewish and Christian bibles. While difficulties with biblical texts make it impossible to reach sure conclusions, perhaps the most widely held hypothesis is that it embodies an overall scheme of 4,000 years (a "great year") taking the re-dedication of the Temple by the Maccabees in 164 BCE as its end-point. [4]

5. Dating the Bible - Wikipedia

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   Internal evidence within the texts of the 27-book New Testament canon suggests that most of these books were written in the 1st century CE. The first book written is thought to be either the Epistle to the Galatians (written around 48 CE) [3] or 1 Thessalonians, written around 50 CE. [4]

6. Biblical literalist chronology - Wikipedia

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   The creation of a literalist chronology of the Bible faces several hurdles, of which the following are the most significant: . There are different texts of the Jewish Bible, the major text-families being: the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the original Hebrew scriptures made in the last few centuries before Christ; the Masoretic text, a version of the Hebrew text curated by the Jewish ...

7. Historical background of the New Testament - Wikipedia

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   The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, ISBN 0-19-515462-2; Fredriksen, Paula Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity ISBN 0-679-76746-0; Fredriksen, Paula (1988. From Jesus to Christ ISBN 0-300-04864-5; Meier, John P., A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical ...

8. List of New Testament pericopes - Wikipedia

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   New Testament stories are the pericopes or stories from the New Testament of Christianity. Events in the: ... For a list of events in the Book of Revelation, see ...

9. New Testament apocrypha - Wikipedia

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   Some of these writings were cited as scripture by early Christians, but since the fifth century a widespread consensus has emerged limiting the New Testament to the 27 books of the modern canon. [2] [3] Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant churches generally do not view the New Testament apocrypha as part of the Bible. [3]