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The Canon List below represents only the Paulistic, Western church canon only. It should also be remembered that this "catholic" canon includes apocrypha that the relatively "new" splinter groups ("Protestants") reject as authoritative. Also not all "protestants" accepted the Protestant NT Canon completely, including ex-priest Martin Luther, whose biggest problems were non-Pauline writings (James, Revelations, and Jude).

CANON LIST DATES
Documents   Marcion
c. 140
  Irenaeus
c. 180 (1)
  Muratorian
c. 200
  Eusebius
c. 325
  Athanasius
c. 367
                     
Matthew         3    
Mark         4    
Luke          
John            
Acts            
Romans          
Corinthians I          
Corinthians II          
Galatians          
Ephesians   2        
Colossians          
Philipians          
Thessalonians I          
Thessalonians II          
Timothy I            
Timothy II            
Titus            
Philemon                
Hebrews                  
James       ??          
Peter I              
Peter II                  
John I            
John II                
John III                  
Jude                
Revelations           ??  
Shepherd of Hermas                  
Wisdom of Solomon                  
Revelation of Peter                  


1 Compiled from references in his writings
2 Marcion called this book `Laodiceans'
3 First part of the list is missing, Luke is called 'the 3rd Gospel'
4 First part of the list is missing, Luke is called 'the 3rd Gospel'

 

 

 






 

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