Synopsis of the Bible
The Bible is the sacred book of Christianity, including both the Old Testament and the New Testament. The bible is a collection of 66 books. Within these 66 books is the story of the development of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Thorough examination of these 66 books suggests how the literature was produced and how it reached its final form. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the process of canonization, the categories included/excluded from the Jewish or Christian Bible, and the process of transmission of the Bible through the centuries. The canon of the Bible consists of the works that have been measured by the respective religious communities and been found to meet the criteria by which they were evaluated. The process of canonization began as the literature was formed. It is suspected that the formation of the literature began very early in the national history of Judaism, beginning at least with the discovery of the scroll of the Law in the Temple in 621 B.C.E. A heretic, The Gnostic Marcion, can really be credited with moving New Testament literature to the status of scriptur
The transmission of the Bible through the centuries has many people intrigued. There are no original autographs of any biblical work available to us. The oldest documents from the Hebrew Bible come from manuscripts found at Qumran. These documents were preserved and passed on by the religious communities. It was also, translated from one language to another to make accessible to whomever regarded it as sacred. Generation after generation passed on those scriptures by piously copying the manuscripts for others. The nearer we get to the modern world, the more manuscripts are available. e. He included in his collection many of the letters of Paul and a blending of the Gospels. Many Christians were relying on the literature of early Christianity as having the authorship of scripture. The church fathers realizing this began to publish lists of literature, commenting on the reliability of the various works. Those lists became the foundation for the official New Testament. Not all works that had been used as scripture by all portions of the Christian community were included in the fina
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