Two features make my thesis point beyond self-evident common sense, namely, on the one hand, the stress laid on biblical canonicity’s necessary contextualization as part of the life of the Christian church, without which there can be no real talk of this canon; and, on the other hand, the stress laid on the one event of canonization and canonical function. This event contains both a process of coming into being, and the canon’s perennial ecclesial usage. The identity of the canon here comes to the