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Origen of Alexandria [a] (c. 185 – c. 253), [4] also known as Origen Adamantius, [b] was an early Christian scholar, [7] ascetic, [8] and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria.
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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.
The New Testament [a] ... and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people; and they shall teach no more every man his ...
This table summarises the chronology of the main tables and serves as a guide to the historical periods mentioned. Much of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament may have been assembled in the 5th century BCE. [7] The New Testament books were composed largely in the second half of the 1st century CE. [8] The deuterocanonical books fall largely in between.
Some of the texts commonly referred to as the New Testament apocrypha. Influential texts and writers between c. 200 and 325 (the First Council of Nicaea) include: Tertullian (c. 155–230) Hippolytus (died 235) Origen (c. 182 – c. 251) Cyprian (died c. 258) Arius (256–336) Other Gnostic texts and texts from the New Testament apocrypha.
Some of these writings were cited as Scripture by some early Christians, but since the fifth century a widespread consensus emerged limiting the New Testament to the 27 books of the modern canon. [173] [174] Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Western Protestant churches do not view the New Testament apocrypha as part of the inspired Bible. [174]
The unique character of the New Testament writings, and their period of origin, is highlighted by the paucity of the literary form in later writing. Once the canon of the New Testament began to take shape, the style ceased to be used on a regular basis. Noncanonical writings persisted, but died out within a historically short period of time.