Melito's canon is the biblical canon attributed to Melito of Sardis, one of the early Church Fathers of the 2nd century. Melito provides what is possibly...
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Melito compiled the earliest known Christian canon of the Old Testament, a term he coined. A passage cited by Eusebius contains Melito's famous canon...
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Greek speakers, with a canon perhaps as found in the Bryennios List or Melito's canon. The Apostles did not otherwise leave a defined set of new scriptures;...
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Apocrypha or deuterocanonical books." After Melito's canon (ca 170), perhaps the earliest reference to a Christian canon is the Bryennios List which was found...
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Melito Irpino, a municipality of the Province of Avellino, Campania Melito (Prignano Cilento), a hamlet of Prignano Cilento, Campania Melito's canon,...
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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...
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Deuterocanonical books (category Development of the Christian biblical canon)
deuterocanonical books, meaning "Of, pertaining to, or constituting a second canon," collectively known as the Deuterocanon (DC), are certain books and passages...
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Hebrew canon (the protocanon) excluded from the canon all of the Old Testament not found there. This view is reflected in the canon of Melito of Sardis...
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Sirach. It is one of the deuterocanonical books, i.e. it is included in the canons of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, but most Protestants...
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The Book of Revelation is the only apocalyptic book in the New Testament canon. It occupies a central place in Christian eschatology. The author names...
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