{"id":44991,"date":"2014-09-04T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=44991"},"modified":"2015-03-19T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:13:55","slug":"canon-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/canon-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a title=\"When Jehovah Witnesses come to call\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/when-jehovah-witnesses-come-to-call\/\">I&#8217;m going to be discussing the question of the canon<\/a> with some Jehovah Witnesses this weekend, I thought I&#8217;d post a few of the important dates which I often need to look up when talking about the setting of the canon of Scripture:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 170<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Muratorian fragment describes a New Testament canon\u00a0which includes\u00a0all of today&#8217;s books, with the exception of\u00a0Hebrews, James, and 3rd John.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 180<\/strong><br \/>\nMelito of Sardis provides a list of Old Testament books, including Wisdom but excluding Esther.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 367<\/strong><br \/>\nBishop Athanasius of Alexandria lists in his 39th Festal Letter the canon. \u00a0His Old Testament canon generally excludes the deutercanon, but includes Baruch and excludes Esther. He includes the entire New Testament canon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 382<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Synod of Rome lists the 73 books of the Catholic Canon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 393<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Council of Hippo lists the Catholic Canon. As with the other local councils, the pronouncements\u00a0of the council were sent to Rome to be ratified by the Pope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 397<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Council of Carthage confirms the pronouncements of Council of Hippo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 405<\/strong><br \/>\nBishop of Toulouse requests a list of all the books of Scripture from the Bishop of Rome. Pope Innocent I sends him the list of 73.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jerome completes the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 419<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Second Council of Carthage confirms the Catholic canon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 1441<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Council of Florence also lists the 73 book canon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 1563<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Council of Trent also lists the\u00a0current day Catholic canon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44995 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cannon.jpg\" alt=\"r_seaman@hotmail.com\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cannon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cannon-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For a detailed list of books used in the Early Church, please check out <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicdefense.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/which-books-were-in-early-christian.html\" target=\"_blank\">this post from Shameless Popery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m going to be discussing the question of the canon with some Jehovah Witnesses this weekend, I thought I&#8217;d post a few of the important dates which I often need to look up when talking about the setting of the canon of Scripture: AD 170 The Muratorian fragment describes a New Testament canon\u00a0which includes\u00a0all of today&#8217;s books, with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,17],"tags":[302,2549,2969,1589,2787],"class_list":["post-44991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-faith","tag-bible","tag-canon","tag-featured","tag-jehovah-witnesses","tag-table-of-contents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44991"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45116,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44991\/revisions\/45116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}