A Complete History of the Biblical Canon in the Christian East and Latin West

Weight: 417 grams I Dimension: 16 x 2 x 23 cm I Paperback: 235 pages

One of the burning questions of all theology is how the Jewish and Christian books of the Bible were decided upon and compiled over the centuries. This puzzle hasn’t been solved by today's overly complicated studies. As often the case, the culprit is retconning (retroactive continuation), where modern scholars and Christians seek their own modern terminology and new ways of doing theology in the olden past. Searching for terms about automobiles and automation within ancient engineering books is doomed to failure, so too is the modern approach of searching for invented Bible of today in the ancient past. This book reveals how Jewish books were decided upon, how this affected the early Christians, and what problems, desires, and questions ancient Christians confronted to form their Bibles and to establish what is called their biblical canon. This is the first time in English that Rev. Dr. Martin Jugie’s masterful treatment of the topic has been translated, adapted, and augmented so that every question on the formation of the Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and in Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Christianity can be answered up to the years of the Reformation. Even the Slav(onic) organization of the Scriptures are decoded. After reading this translation and original study, the real nature of the biblical canon and Deuterocanon will be definitively settled for the reader.