When Was the First Surviving List of the Books in the New Testament Written?
Some scholars place the first listing of the books of the New Testament in the year 367. The historical evidence begs to differ.
It’s a claim that’s been made over and over.
I heard it so often during graduate studies that I included it in some of my early books as an undisputed fact.
Here’s the claim: The first person to list the same twenty-seven books that we find in our New Testament today was Athanasius of Alexandria, in the year 367.
Sometimes, th…
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