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  1. With Apostle Paul, author James Cannon has taken the story of one of the most momentous quests in history and brought it to life in a novel with a vitality and immediacy that is at once gripping, informative, and inspiring.

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  2. Dec 24, 2005 · James Cannon is the author of Apostle Paul: A Novel of the Man Who Brought Christianity to the Western World. He discusses his fictional take on the important historical figure with Scott...

  3. How were the books of the Bible chosen? The 39 books of the Old Testament form the Bible of Judaism, while the Christian Bible includes those books and also the 27 books of the New Testament. This list of books included in the Bible is known as the canon.

  4. Most likely James was written first and Revelation, last. Authority of NT Books Various early church fathers like Polycarp (66-155), Irenaeus (130-202), Tertullian (160-220), and Origen (185-254) quote from, or authoritatively reference, most of the New Testament books.

    • The Old Testament Canon
    • The New Testament Canon
    • Further Reading

    At the time of Jesus and the apostles, the question of what constitutes ‘the Scriptures’ was basically settled. What Christians call the Old or First Testament contains the same material as the Hebrew Bible – the Scriptures of Jesus’s day. The Hebrew Bible contains 24 books (scrolls, really, since books or codices did not appear until the second ha...

    In one way, the New Testament is slightly more straightforward. There is no equivalent to the apocryphal books which appear in some Bibles but not others: all churches accept the same 27 books. In other ways, it is equally complex. One very common idea about the NT canon is that it was decided by the Roman emperor Constantine and the Council of Nic...

    Articles

    Kruger, Michael J. ‘The Biblical Canon’. The Gospel Coalition. Meade, John D. ‘Did Nicaea Really Create the Bible?’ Text and Canon Institute(2021). Meade, John D. ‘Why Are Protestant and Catholic Bibles Different?’ Text and Canon Institute(2021).

    Videos

    Licona, Mike. ‘How the Canon of the Bible Was Formed’ (2017). The Gospel Coalition. ‘Why You Can Rely On the Canon’ – interview with Michael Kruger (2014)

    Books

    Hill, C.E. Who Chose the Gospels? Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Kruger, Michael J. Canon Revisited: Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012 Lanier, Greg. A Christian’s Pocket Guide to How We Got the Bible : Old and New Testament Canon and Text. Tain: Christian Focus, 2023. Meade, John D., and Peter J. Gurry. Scribes and Scripture: The Amazing Story of How We Got the Bible. Wheaton, IL: Crosswa...

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  7. Nov 8, 2005 · A solid book that weaves Biblical text, early Church history, cultural history of the 1st century AD, and a large dose of fiction to create a tale of Paul, a man both reviled and loved by the Christians of that day and today still.

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