Description
The canon was not handed down complete. It was argued over for centuries, and the arguments are documented.
This guide takes twelve excluded books, including Jubilees, the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Apocalypse of Abraham, the Gospel of Thomas and the Shepherd of Hermas. For each: what it contains, when and where it was written, which communities treated it as scripture, and the specific historical reason it fell out.
Includes: 212-page PDF, twelve book profiles, a canon-formation timeline from the second to the fifth century, and a guide to reading each text in public-domain translation.
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