Reference

Beare, F. W. "Canon of the NT." In Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Volume 1. New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962. Pp.520-532.
Ref. BS440 .I63 v.1

Gamble, Harry Y. "Canon: New Testament." In The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 1. Editor-in-chief, David Noel Freedman. New York: Doubleday, 1992. Pp.852-861.
Ref. BS440 .A54 1992 v.1

Guthrie, D. "Canon of the New Testament, The." In The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 1. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1975. Pp.731-745.
Ref. BS440 .Z63 v.1

Hill, Charles E. "Canon of the New Testament." In Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Editor-in-chief, David Noel Freedman. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000. Pp.217-220.
Ref. BS440 .E44 2000

"History of the New Testament Canon." In Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 5. Revised. Washington, DC/Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald, 1980. Pp.123-132.
Ref. BS491.2 .S4 v.5 1980

McDonald, L. M. "Canon." In Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments. Edited by Ralph P. Martin and Peter H. Davids. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997. Pp.134-144.
Ref. BS2625.5 .D53 1997

McDonald, Lee M. "Canon." In Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. Second Edition. Edited by Everett Ferguson. New York: Garland, 1997. "Canon: New Testament Canon," pp.205-211 (New Testament Canon, pp.206-211).
Ref. BR66.5 .E53 1997 v.1

Meye, R. P. "Canon of the NT." In The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Volume 1. General Editor, Geoffrey W. Bromiley. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979. Pp.601-606.
Ref. BS440 .I6 1979 v.1

Walls, Andrew F. "The Canon of the New Testament." In The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Volume 1. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1979. Pp.629-643.
Ref. BS491.2 .E96 v.1

 

 

Books

Aland, Kurt. The Problem of the New Testament Canon. London: A. R. Mowbray, 1962.
(Not in PUC library)

Barton, John. Holy Writings, Sacred Text: The Canon in Early Christianity. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997. 210p.
BS465 .B36 1998

Frank, Harry Thomas, Charles William Swain, and Courtlandt Canby. The Bible Through the Ages. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1967. Chapter 3, "A New Creation: The Making of Christian Scripture," pp.83-132.
BS445 .F8 1967

Bruce, F. F. The Canon of Scripture. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1988. Chapters 8-18, pp.117-229 cover the New Testament and the early church to the fourth century.
BS465 .B78 1988

Bruce, Frederick F. "New Light on the Origins of the New Testament Canon." In New Dimensions in New Testament Study. Edited by Richard N. Longenecker and Merrill C. Tenney. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1974. Pp.3-18.
BS2395 .N49

Campenhausen, Hans von. The Formation of the Christian Bible. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1972. 342p.
BS465 .C313 1972

Collins, Raymond F. The Birth of the New Testament: The Origin and Development of the First Christian Generation. New York: Crossroads, 1993.
(Not in PUC library)

Dockery, David S. Christian Scripture: An Evangelical Perspective on Inspiration, Authority and Interpretation. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1995. "The New Testament Canon," pp.86-96.
BS480 .D56 1995

Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 294p.
BS2840 .E4 2003

Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 342p.
BS2832 .E37 2003

Feine, Paul and Johannes Behm. Introduction to the New Testament. Edited by Werner Georg Kümmel. Fourteenth Revised Edition. Nashville and New York: Abingdon Press, 1966. Chapter 35, "The Development of the New Testament Canon Until the End of the Second Century," pp.334-347; Chapter 36, "The Closing of the New Testament Canon in the Early Church," pp.347-354.
BS2330 .F413

Filson, Floyd V. Which Books Belong in the Bible?: A Study of the Canon. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1957. 174p.
BS465 .F5

Froom, LeRoy Edwin. The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Volume 1. Washington, DC: Review and Herald, 1950. Appendix B, "Development of the New Testament Canon," pp.922-930.
BS647 .F72 v.1 (2nd copy in Heritage Collection)

Gamble, Harry Y. "The Canon of the New Testament." In The New Testament and Its Modern Interpreters. Edited by Eldon Jay Epp and George W. MacRae. Philadelphia: Fortress Press; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989. Pp.201-243.
BS2350 .N47 1989

Geisler, Norman L. and William E. Nix. A General Introduction to the Bible. Chicago: Moody Press, 1968. Chapter 14, "Development and History of the New Testament Canon," pp.179-194.
BS475.2 .G39

Goodspeed, Edgar J. The Formation of the New Testament. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1926. Pp.1-137.
BS2315 .G6

Grant, R. M. "The New Testament Canon." In The Cambridge History of the Bible, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to Jerome. Edited by P. R. Ackroyd and C. F. Evans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp.284-308.
BS445 .C26 v.1

Grant, Robert M. The Formation of the New Testament. New York: Harper and Row, 1965. 194p.
BS2320 .G78

Harris, Robert Laird. Inspiration and Canonicity of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1957. Part 3, "The Canon of the New Testament," pp.199-271.
BS480 .H27

Metzger, Bruce M. The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. 326p.
BS2320 .M47 1987

Moule, Charles Francis Digby. The Birth of the New Testament. New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Chapter X, "Collecting and Sifting the Documents," pp.178-209.
BS2330.2 .M6

Patzia, Arthur G. The Making of the New Testament. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1995. 205p.
BS2330.2 .P37 1995

Ridderbos, Herman. "The Canon of the New Testament." In Revelation and the Bible: Contemporary Evangelical Thought. Edited by Carl F. H. Henry. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1958. Pp.189-201.
BS413 .H45

Tenney, Merrill C. New Testament Survey. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1961. Chapter 23, "The Canon of the New Testament," pp.401-413; Appendixes: "A Chart of the Canons of the First Four Centuries," p.430.
BS2330 .T4 1961

Wegner, Paul D. The Journey From Texts to Translations: The Origin and Development of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1999. Chapter 9, "Canonization of the New Testament," pp.131-151; Chapter 10, "New Testament Extracanonical Literature," pp.153-162.
BS445 .W38 1999

Williams, C. S. C. "The History of the Text and Canon of the New Testament to Jerome." In The Cambridge History of the Bible, Volume 2: The West From the Fathers to the Reformation. Edited by G. W. H. Lampe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp.27-53.
BS445 .C26 v.2

 

 

Periodicals

Dayton, Wilber T. "Factors Promoting the Formation of the New Testament Canon." Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 10 (Winter 1967): 28-35.

Dunbar, David G. "Why the Canon Still Rumbles." Christianity Today 32 (February 5, 1988): 35-37.

Foster, Lewis. "The Earliest Collection of Paul's Epistles." Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 10 (Winter 1967): 44-53.

Gaffin, Richard B., Jr. "The New Testament: How Do We Know for Sure?" Christianity Today 32 (February 5, 1988): 28-32.

Hedrick, Charles W. "The 'Four' 34 Gospels: Diversity and Division Among the Earliest Christians." Bible Review 18 (June 2002): 20-31, 46-47. Illus.

Hoover, Roy W. "How the Books of the New Testament Were Chosen." Bible Review 9 (April 1993): 44-47.

Howard, George. "Canon: Choosing the Books of the New Testament." Bible Review 5 (October 1989): 16-17.

Murdoch, W. G. C. "Montanism and the Settlement of the New Testament Canon." The Channel: Communication for Biblical Theology and Related Studies, April 1978, pp.5-24
This Journal is in Heritage Room

Nicole, Roger. "The Canon of the New Testament." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 40 (June 1997): 199-206.

Smith, D. Moody. "When Did the Gospels Become Scripture?" Journal of Biblical Literature 119 (Spring 2000): 3-20.

Stanton, Graham N. "The Fourfold Gospel." New Testament Studies 43 (July 1997): 317-346.

Tenney, Merrill C. "The Canon of the Gospels." Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 10 (Winter 1967): 36-43.

Thiede, Carsten Peter. "Athanasius Defines the New Testament." Christian History 9 (No.4, 1990): 12-13. "The 100 Most Important Events in Church History," AD 367.

Thiede, Carsten Peter. "A Testament Is Born." Christian History 13 (No.3, 1994): 24-29. Illus. The emergence of the New Testament in the early church.

Van Biema, David, Maggie Sieger and Chris Taylor. "The Lost Gospels." Time 162 (December 22,2003): 54-61. Illus.

Youngblood, Ronald. "The Process: How We Got Our Bible." Christianity Today 32 (February 5, 1988): 24-28.