CORE BIBLIOGRAPHY BIBLES The Apologetics Study Bible, Holman Bible Publishers 2017. The Holy Bible, King James Version. Cambridge Edition. 1769. The Holy Bible, King James Version. 1611. King James Bible Online, 2025. www.kingjamesbibleonline.org. The Jewish Study Bible, Second Edition, Oxford University Press 2014. CANON—PROTESTANT The Biblical Canon Lists from Early…
POSSIBLE ERRATA Assessing my own work-product, the main problem is that Biblindex starts to become incomplete in the fourth century, and I was forced (by my own technological incompetence, no doubt) to use the old search form.[1] My work used other sources and databases (finding many later citations beyond the…
QUESTIONS NO OTHER BOOKS SEEM TO ADDRESS Who read these Apocrypha to illiterate Jews so that they would know all the things it is claimed they knew—and where was that done, and why, if they were not being read as Scripture during religious services? Why would the Gospel to the…
ADVICE FOR THOSE WHO RESEARCH THE CANON Having the experience of doing all this research, I offer the following lessons learned for anyone else who tries to do their own research:
THE FINAL RULING: IS CHRIST RISEN AND WERE APOCRYPHA SCRIPTURE? There are at least a thousand and one ways to explain the evidence. Of course there are. In fact, many of the old arguments still exist, and nothing “demands” that one give them up. There is never only one way…
LIST OF CANON LISTS Lists broken out by Book were included above, so this is one complete summary list: FATHER/LIST/BOOK YEAR ACCEPTED APOCRYPHA “THIRD CATEGORY”? MELITO OF SARDIS 170 SOME APOCRYPHA (JEWS?) NO MURATORIAN CANON 170 SOME APOCRYPHA NO CLEMENT ALEXANDRIA 203 SOME APOCRYPHA NO ORIGEN (JEWISH LIST) 220 SOME…
Pope Innocent I Canon List 405 AD: Pope Innocent I[1] accepts all the Apocrypha as full Scripture. As with the African Councils, one could be pedantic about the lack of explicit mention of Baruch, but there is no reason to think it was meant to be excluded and every reason…
Augustine Canon List 397 AD: Augustine accepted all the Apocrypha.[1] But see this quote: In the second case he [Augustine] expressly lowers the authority of the books of the Maccabees by remarking that “the Jews have them not like the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets to which the Lord…
Rufinus Canon List 400 AD: Rufinus:[1] His list implicitly includes Baruch and Susanna as canon. As for the other Apocrypha, “there are other books which were called by our predecessors not ‘canonical’ but ecclesiastical.’ Thus, there is Wisdom…Sirach … Tobit … Judith and the books of the Maccabees. They desired…
