A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible.. The English word canon comes from the Greek κανών kanōn, meaning "rule" or "measuring stick".The use of the word "canon" to refer to a set of religious scriptures was first used by David Ruhnken, in the 18th century.

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This is the age of the Graeco-Latin church, or of the Christian Fathers. Its field is the countries around the Mediterranean -- Western Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe -- just the theatre of the old Roman empire and of classic heathendom. This age lays the foundation, in doctrine, government, and worship, for all the subsequent history.

biblical literature, four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha. The Old Testament is a collection of writings that was first compiled and preserved as the sacred books of the ancient Hebrew …

The Original Order of the Books of the Bible. By COGwriter. The Bible contains 66 books. There are thirty-nine books in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New Testament. The commonly placed order is not the original one. So some have wondered about the original order of the books found in the Bible.

May 03, 2011 · The Old Testament of the Itala had been translated from the Septuagint. The task required twenty years, but Jerome completed it in AD 402. This translation was called the Vulgate because it was the form of Latin spoken by the majority of the people.7. The Vulgate became the Bible of the Western or Roman Church.

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