Autor: McDonald Lee Martin McDonald

Just how did the Jewish and Christian Bibles come together? Why were some ancient texts excluded? Or included and later rejected? What were the criteria? This volume deals with a significant issue in …

This volume draws attention to ancient religious texts, especially the so-called »non-canonical» texts, by focusing on how they were used or functioned in Early Judaism and Early Christianity. The …

Many of the writings deemed »apocryphal» and »pseudepigraphical»were in circulation in the early centuries of Judaism and Christianity. Their influences and impacts on the development of early …

Over the past four decades, many scholars have focused on the expanding collection of alleged ‘extra-canonical’ documents that were deemed inspired by God in numerous early Jewish and Christian …

Lee Martin Mc Donald provides a magisterial overview of the development of the biblical canon — the emergence of the list of individual texts that constitutes the Christian bible. In these two …

Lee Martin Mc Donald provides a magisterial overview of the development of the biblical canon — the emergence of the list of individual texts that constitutes the Christian bible. In these two …

How did authority function before the bible as we know it emerged? Lee Martin Mc Donald examines the authorities that existed from the Church’s beginning: the appeal to the texts containing the words …

How did authority function before the bible as we know it emerged? Lee Martin Mc Donald examines the authorities that existed from the Church’s beginning: the appeal to the texts containing the words …