How Long Did It Take for the Books in the New Testament to End Up in the Bible?
The short answer: It’s complicated. But there wasn’t as much flux as some scholars seem to think.
According to New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, no church leader ever came up with “a definitive list of books to be included in the canon that matched our list today” until
the famous Athanasian letter of 367 C.E. [But] even the powerful Athanasius could not settle the issue once and for all.
From this, Ehrman goes on to…
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