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ISBN-13: | 9781441241634 |
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Publisher: | Baker Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 12/01/2001 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 700 |
File size: | 2 MB |
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
Part 1 Introduction
1 Introduction Lee Martin McDonald James A. Sanders 3
Part 2 The Old/First Testament Canon
2 The Notion and Definition of Canon Eugene Ulrich 21
3 The Jewish Scriptural Canon in Cultural Perspective Philip R. Davies 36
4 The Formation of the Hebrew Bible Canon: Isaiah as a Test Case Joseph Blenkinsopp 53
5 The Septuagint: The Bible of Hellenistic Judaism Albert C. Sundberg Jr. 68
6 Questions of Canon Viewed through the Dead Sea Scrolls James C. VanderKam 91
7 Josephus and His Twenty-Two Book Canon Steve Mason 110
8 Origins of a Tripartite Old Testament Canon Julio C. Trebolle Barrera 128
9 Jamnia Revisited Jack P. Lewis 146
10 The Rabbis' Bible: The Canon of the Hebrew Bible and the Early Rabbinic Guild Jack N. Lightstone 163
11 The Scriptures of Jesus and His Earliest Followers Craig A. Evans 185
12 The Old Testament Apocrypha in the Early Church and Today Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. 196
13 The Pseudepigrapha in the Early Church William Adler 211
14 The Codex and Canon Consciousness Robert A. Kraft 229
15 The Status of the Masoretic Text in Modern Text Editions of the Hebrew Bible: The Relevance of Canon Emanuel Tov 234
16 The Issue of Closure in the Canonical Process James A. Sanders 252
Part 3 The New/Second Testament Canon
17 The New Testament Canon: Recent Research and the Status Quaestionis Harry Y. Gamble 267
18 Factors Leading to the Selection and Closure of the New Testament Canon: A Survey of Some Recent Studies Everett Ferguson 295
19 Reflections on Jesus and the New Testament Canon William R. Farmer 321
20 Marcion Revisited John Barton 341
21 Gnosticism and the Christian Bible Pheme Perkins 355
22 Evidence for an Early Christian Canon (Second and Third Century) Peter Balla 372
23 The New Testament Canon of Eusebius Everett R. Kalin 386
24 The Muratorian Fragment and the Origins of the New Testament Canon Geoffrey Mark Hahneman 405
25 Identifying Scripture and Canon in the Early Church: The Criteria Question Lee Martin McDonald 416
26 The Problem of Pseudonymity in Biblical Literature and Its Implications for Canon Formation Kent D. Clarke 440
27 The Greek New Testament as a Codex Daryl D. Schmidt 469
28 Issues in the Interrelation of New Testament Textual Criticism and Canon Eldon Jay Epp 485
29 The Canonical Structure of Gospel and Apostle François Bovon 516
30 The Significance of a Canonical Perspective of the Church's Scripture Robert W. Wall 528
31 The Once and Future New Testament Robert W. Funk 541
32 Has the Canon a Continuing Function? James D. G. Dunn 558
Appendixes
A Primary Sources for the Study of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Canon Lee Martin McDonald 580
B Primary Sources for the Study of the New Testament Canon Lee Martin McDonald 583
C Lists and Catalogues of Old Testament Collections Lee Martin McDonald 585
D Lists and Catalogues of New Testament Collections Lee Martin McDonald 591
Select Bibliography 599
Index of Subjects 625
Index of Modern Authors 633
Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources 643
1 Old Testament / Hebrew Bible 643
2 Apocrypha of the Old Testament 647
3 New Testament 648
4 Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament 652
5 Writings from the Judean Desert 653
6 Rabbinic Literature and Targumim 653
7 Writings from Nag Hammadi 655
8 Other Ancient and Medieval Writings 655