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t. e. The canon of the New Testament is the set of books many modern Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian Bible. For most churches, the canon is an agreed-upon list of 27 books [1] that includes the canonical Gospels, Acts, letters attributed to various apostles, and Revelation.
v. t. e. 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 ...
Tagalog. Portions of the Bible were first translated by Spanish friars into the Philippine languages in the catechisms and prayer materials they produced. The Doctrina Cristiana (1593) was the first book published in the Tagalog baybayin script. Protestants published Ang Biblia (American Standard Version) in 1905 in Tagalog, based on the ...
The deuterocanonical books, meaning "Of, pertaining to, or constituting a second canon," collectively known as the Deuterocanon (DC), are certain books and passages considered to be canonical books of the Old Testament by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East, but which modern Jews and many Protestants regard as ...
The New Testament [a] ( NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events relating to first-century Christianity. The New Testament's background, the first division of the Christian Bible, is called the Old Testament, which is based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible ...
In line with the common view, Koester places canonization of the New Testament at the end of the second century. David Trobisch proposes a shorter interval, saying that a specific collection of Christian writings closely approximating the modern New Testament canon was edited and published before 180, probably by Polycarp (69–155).
Reuel or Raguel (Hebrew: רְעוּאֵל, romanized: Rəʿūʾēl; Edomite: 𐤓𐤏𐤀𐤋 rʿʾl), meaning "God shall pasture" or more specifically "El shall pasture" (as a shepherd does with his flock) is a Hebrew name associated with several biblical and religious figures.
Marcionism. Main interests. Dualism, Nontrinitarianism. Marcion of Sinope ( / ˈmɑːrkiən, - siən /; Ancient Greek: Μαρκίων [2] [note 1] Σινώπης; c. 85 – c. 160) was a theologian [3] in early Christianity. [3] [4] Marcion preached that God had sent Jesus Christ, who was distinct from the "vengeful" God ( Demiurge) who had ...