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The Formation of the Biblical Canon, Volumes I & II is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lee Martin McDonald 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 volumes—in sum more than double the length of his previous works on this subject—McDonald presents his most in-depth overview to date. McDonald shows students and researchers how the list of texts that...

There is nothing specific in the above original text of Jubilees about a twenty-two-book biblical canon, but in a late fourth- or fifth-century quotation of Jubilees, Epiphanius of Salamis, On Weights and Measures (ca. 315–403 CE), cites this book and refers to a twenty-two-book collection of Jewish Scriptures along with several other important twenty-two number groupings in the Jewish traditions. The relevant part of the Epiphanius text reads as follows: “As there were twenty-two letters and twenty-two
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