Jerome Canon Lists 391 AD, 398 AD, 404 AD: Jerome. Jerome’s personal views are pretty clear: he thought the Jewish canon and the Hebrew versions of those books should be the Christian Old Testament as well. Exactly who agreed with him, if anyone, is unclear. He had some high-level support,…
Epiphanius Canon Lists 385 AD:[1] Epiphanius. Epiphanius is the Romaniote Jewish Christian mentioned earlier. He gives us multiple Jewish canons and one Christian list. For my purposes, Baruch and Susanna are accepted (by both Christians and Jews, per Epiphanius[2]); Wisdom and Sirach, I will discuss momentarily; and the other four…
Gregory of Nazianzus and Amphilochius of Iconium Canon Lists 380 AD: Gregory of Nazianzus;[1] and 380 AD: Amphilochius of Iconium[2] Gregory and Amphilochius were cousins, and both left poems on the canon (it was once thought that Gregory had written them both). They are similar in that they include Baruch…
The Apostolic Canons List 380 AD: The Apostolic Canons.[1] The writer of the Apostolic Constitutions—whoever he was or they were—does Athanasius one better: rather than pass on what came from the Fathers, he just pretends to be the Apostles themselves, as “they” give us another unique canon that no one…
