1) What is the canon? Is it an "authoritative list of books"? It's better to think of the canon as the list of authorit...

Each of the books of the New Testament is well preserved as can be seen using the tools of historical research. Historical research, howeve...

People sometimes see what they want in allegory. If a modern Protestant sees the number 66 in an allegory, he naturally thinks of the 66 bo...

The book of Tobit is told from a first person perspective by a man called "Tobit." The book begins: "The book of the words o...

Since I am on James White's blogging team, and am friends with him, I was sure to carefully read an article posted with the alarming tit...

Athanasius' canon of Scripture, presented in his 39th Festal letter is famous. It's not nearly as famous as his "Athanasius Co...

(the following is a guest post by my friend, David King) One frequent myth often propounded by those who prefer a 4th century Greek canon of...

Athanasius wrote a letter to Marcellinus regarding the Psalms ( full text ). Athanasius wouldn't have fit into post-Vatican II Roman Ca...