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Making of the New Testament, The : Origin, Collection, Text & Canon
Overview: This book is a textbook study of the origin, collection, copying and canonizing of the New Testament documents. Like shrewd detectives reading the suble traces of evidence, biblical scholars have studied the trail of clues and pieced together the story of these books. The author tells the story, answering our many questions:
- How were books and documents produced in the first century?
- What motivated the early Christians to commit teaching and events and visions to papyrus?
- How were the stories and sayings of Jesus circulated, handed down and shaped into Gospels?
- Would a first-century librarian have known instinctively how to classify a Gospel, an Acts or an Apocalypse?
- What do we know about ancient letter writing, secretaries and "copy shops"?
- When and where were the New Testament documents written?
- Why were four Gospels included instead of just one?
- How were Paul's letters, sent here and there, gathered into a single collection?
- Who bdecided - and by what criteria - which documents would be included in the New Testament?
- Are there other letters, Gospels and Acts that almost made it into the New Testament but didn't?
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