CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Preface
Abbreviations
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1 HOLY SCRIPTURE
PART TWO: OLD TESTAMENT
2 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS
3 THE GREEK OLD TESTAMENT
4 THE OLD TESTAMENT BECOMES A NEW BOOK
5 THE CHRISTIAN CANON OF THE OLD TESTAMENT:
A. IN THE EAST
6 THE CHRISTIAN CANON OF THE OLD TESTAMENT:
B. IN THE LATIN WEST
7 BEFORE AND AFTER THE REFORMATION
PART THREE: NEW TESTAMENT
8 WRITINGS OF THE NEW ERA
9 MARCION
10 VALENTINUS AND HIS SCHOOL
11 THE CATHOLIC RESPONSE
12 THE MURATORIAN FRAGMENT
13 IRENAEUS, HIPPOLYTUS, NOVATIAN
14 TERTULLIAN, CYPRIAN AND OTHERS
15 THE ALEXANDRIAN FATHERS
16 EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA
17 ATHANASIUS AND AFTER
18 THE WEST IN THE FOURTH CENTURY TO JEROME
19 AUGUSTINE TO THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
20 THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON IN THE AGE OF PRINTING
PART FOUR: CONCLUSION
21 CRITERIA OF CANONICITY
22 A CANON WITHIN THE CANON?
23 CANON, CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION
Appendix 1 THE ‘SECRET’ GOSPEL OF MARK
Appendix 2 PRIMARY SENSE AND PLENARY SENSE
Bibliography