How the Bible Became Holy (Online)
by
Michael L. Satlow
Traces the story of how, when, and why Jews and Christians gradually granted authority to texts we now know as Scripture. The Bible, Satlow maintains, was not the consecrated book it is now until quite late in its history.
The Canon Debate
by
Lee Martin McDonald; James A. Sanders
How was the New Testament canon formed and closed? What role was played by Marcion? By gnostics? By the church fathers? What did the early church make of the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha? By what criteria have questions of canonicity been decided? Read to find out.