|
Development of the NT canon |
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).
| 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'
Copyright © 1997/5757 Shemayah ben-Avraham
Monday, June 18, 2001
