My First Scholarly Encounter with the Canon of the New Testament

So: I've started to work on my next book (or books, depending on how things go), on how we got the canon of the New Testament.  Why these 27 books?  Why not others?  Who decided?  When?  On what grounds?  etc. I started thinking about this issue already as an 18-year-old in Bible college, but at [...]

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