Bruce The Canon of Scripture

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5140-1482-0
Verlag: IVP Academic
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E-Book, Englisch, 349 Seiten

Winner of two 1990 Christianity Today Awards: Readers' Choice (1st place; theology doctrine) and Critics' Choice (1st place; theology doctrine) A 1989 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner How did the books of the Bible come to be recognized as Holy Scripture? Who decided what shape the canon should take? What criteria influenced these decisions? After nearly nineteen centuries the canon of Scripture remains an issue of debate. Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox all have slightly differing collections of documents in their Bibles. Martin Luther, one of the early leaders of the Protestant Reformation, questioned the inclusion of the book of James in the canon. And many Christians today, while confessing the authority of all of Scripture, tend to rely on only a few books and particular themes while ignoring the rest. Scholars have raised many other questions as well. Research into second-century Gnostic texts have led some to argue that politics played a significant role in the formation of the Christian canon. Assessing the influence of ancient communities and a variety of disputes on the final shaping of the canon call for ongoing study. In this significant historical study, F. F. Bruce brings the wisdom of a lifetime of reflection and biblical interpretation to bear on questions and confusion surrounding the Christian canon of Scripture. Adept in both Old and New Testament studies, he brings a rare comprehensive perspective to the task. Though some issues have shifted since the initial publication of this classic book, it remains a significant landmark and touchstone for further studies.

F. F. Bruce (1910-1990) was known worldwide as the 'dean of evangelical scholarship'-a reputation earned by a lifetime of scholarship, teaching, and writing. Trained in classics at the University of Aberdeen and Cambridge University, he taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Leeds, and Sheffield before serving for nearly twenty years as the Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester in England. During his distinguished career, he wrote many outstanding commentaries and books, including Paul, Apostle of the Heart Set Free; Israel and the Nations; New Testament History; The Books and the Parchments: How We Got Our English Bible; Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament; and The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? He also served as general editor of The New International Commentary on the New Testament.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruce, F. F.

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Abbreviations

GENERAL

ANF	The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Eerdmans)

AV/KJV

Authorized/King James Version (1611)

BJRL	Bulletin of the John Rylands (University) Library

CBQ	Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CHB	Cambridge History of the Bible, I—III (Cambridge, 1963-70)

Cod(d).

Codex (Codices)

CSEL	Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (Vienna)

DB	Dictionary of the Bible, I-IV, ed. W. Smith (London, 21893)

DCB	Dictionary of Christian Biography, I-IV, ed. W. Smith and H. Wace (London, 1877-87)

EQ	Evangelical Quarterly

E.T.	English translation

FGNTK

Forschungen zur Geschichte des neutestamentlichen Kanons, I-IX, ed. T. Zahn (Leipzig, 1881-1929)

GCS	Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller (Berlin)

Hist. Eccl.

Ecclesiastical History (Eusebius, Sozomen)

HTR	Harvard Theological Review

JBL	Journal of Biblical Literature

JBR	Journal of Bible and Religion

JTS	Journal of Theological Studies

LXX	Septuagint (pre-Christian Greek version of OT)

Mart. Pal.

Martyrs of Palestine (Eusebius)

MS(S)

manuscript(s)

MT	Masoretic text (of Hebrew Bible)

NCB	New Century Bible

NEB	New English Bible (1961, 1970)

NIGTC

New International Greek Testament Commentary

NIV	New International Version (1978)

NovT Sup

Supplement(s) to Novum Testamentum

NPNF	Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (Eerdmans)

n.s.	new series

NT	New Testament

NTS	New Testament Studies

OT	Old Testament

PG	Patrologia Graeca (ed. J.-P. Migne)

PL	Patrologia Latina (ed. J.-P. Migne)

RSV	Revised Standard Version (1952, 1971)

Strom.

Stromateis (Miscellanies), by Clement of Alexandria

Sup.	Supplement(s)

s.v.	sub vocabulo = ‘under the word’

TB	Babylonian Talmud

TDNT	Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, I—X, ed. G. Kittel and G. Friedrich, E. T. by G. W. Bromiley (Eerdmans, 1964-76)

TNTC	Tyndale New Testament Commentaries

TS	Texts and Studies (Cambridge University Press)

TU	Texte und Untersuchungen

UCCF	Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship

VTSup

Supplement(s) to Vetus Testamentum

ZNW	Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliehe Wissenschaft

ZTK	Zeitschrift fiir Theologie und Kirche

MANUSCRIPTS

A	Codex Alexandrinus (in British Museum, London)

Aleph

Codex Sinaiticus (in British Museum, London)

B	Codex Vaticanus (in Vatican Library, Rome)

D	Codex Bezae (in Cambridge University Library)

DP	Codex Claromontanus (in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)

GP	Codex Boernerianus (in Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden)

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