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26th July 2012, 09:14 PM
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I think his was a proposed canon, but I think the formal acceptance of what we know today as the NT was not until 397.
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2nd August 2012, 12:45 PM
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The canon includes them today, but in the past it did not.
The late-5th or early-6th century Peshitta of the Syrian Orthodox Church[21] includes a 22-book NT, excluding II Peter, II John, III John, Jude, and Revelation. (The Lee Peshitta of 1823 follows the Protestant canon)
McDonald & Sanders, Appendix D-2, lists the following Syrian catalogue of St. Catherine's, c.400:
“ Gospels (4): Matt, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Gal, Rom, Heb, Col, Eph, Phil, 1-2 Thess, 1-2 Tim, Titus, Phlm. ”
The Syriac Peshitta, used by all the various Syrian Churches, originally did not include 2 Peter, 2 John, 3 John, Jude and Revelation (and this canon of 22-books is the one cited by John Chrysostom (~347–407) and Theodoret (393–466) from the School of Antioch). It also includes Psalm 151 and Psalm 152–155 and 2 Baruch. Western Syrians have added the remaining 5 books to their NT canons in modern times (such as the Lee Peshitta of 1823). Today, the official lectionaries followed by the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, with headquarters at Kottayam (India), and the Chaldean Syrian Church, also known as the Church of the East (Nestorian), with headquarters at Trichur (India), still present lessons from only the 22-books of the original Peshitta.[22]
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Reps: 884,922,822,797,148,928 (power: 884,922,822,797,164) | | Originally Posted by Macarius I think, to me, the more intriguing questions are what does all this ambiguity about the Scriptures indicate about the early church's understanding of the nature of Scripture? And, perhaps even more interesting, on what grounds were books included, excluded, considered Scripture, or denied that status (if it was even a "binary" yes or no)?
that is a pretty interesting question considering the thread.
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