In this volume, biblical scholar, John Barton, examines the complex relationship between the canonical texts of the Old and the New Testaments. He focuses on the historical questions: how it was that the biblical canon came about; how it was that the church came to accept as authoritative a New Testament containing no more and no less than 27 books and how it was that the church placed alongside these books the Hebrew Scriptures, now renamed the "Old Testament". In responding to such questions the author draws a distinction between the notion of "scripture" and that of "canon".
- ISBN10 0281050112
- ISBN13 9780281050116
- Publish Date 27 February 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 February 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint SPCK Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English