work of A. C. Sundberg, who insists that we cannot speak of the idea of canon until at least the fourth century.25 Sundberg employs an exclusive definition of canon, arguing that it is a fixed, final, closed list of books, and therefore we cannot use the term canon to speak of any second- (or even third-) century historical realities.26 To do so would be “anachronistic.” Although Scripture would have existed prior to this time period, Sundberg argues that we must reserve the term canon until the