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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. Biblical canon - Wikipedia

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   The second part is the New Testament, almost always containing 27 books: the four canonical gospels, Acts of the Apostles, 21 Epistles or letters and the Book of Revelation. The Catholic Church and Eastern Christian churches hold that certain deuterocanonical books and passages are part of the Old Testament canon .

4. Gospel - Wikipedia

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   The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church says that the original may date from c. 150. [108] Some scholars believe that it may represent a tradition independent from the canonical gospels, but that developed over a long time and was influenced by Matthew and Luke; [108] other scholars believe it is a later text, dependent from the canonical ...

5. Biblical studies - Wikipedia

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   Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible, with Bible referring to the books of the canonical Hebrew Bible in mainstream Jewish usage and the Christian Bible including the canonical Old Testament and New Testament, respectively.

6. New Testament - Wikipedia

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   The word "gospel" derives from the Old English gōd-spell [24] (rarely godspel), meaning "good news" or "glad tidings". Its Hebrew equivalent being "besorah" (בְּשׂוֹרָה). The gospel was considered the "good news" of the coming Kingdom of Messiah, and the redemption through the life and death of Jesus, the central Christian message. [25]

7. Canonical criticism - Wikipedia

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   A portion of the Leningrad Codex.Although the Hebrew Bible is the result of a developmental process, canonical criticism focuses on the final form of the text.. Canonical criticism, sometimes called canon criticism or the canonical approach, is a way of interpreting the Bible that focuses on the text of the biblical canon itself as a finished product.