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The Making of the New Testament: Origin, Collection, Text & Canon is unavailable, but you can change that!

In The Making of the New Testament, Arthur Patzia retells the New Testament’s story. His textbook study of the origin, collection, copying and canonizing of the New Testament documents answers a myriad of questions—cultural, historical, geographical, linguistic and spiritual. What motivated the early Christians to commit teaching and events and visions to papyrus? How were the stories and...

scholars believe that Justin was acquainted with Matthew, Luke and Mark, it is doubtful that he was familiar with John. Justin’s knowledge of several Gospels does not necessarily mean that there was a full collection at this time. We do not know when, where or by whom each Gospel was brought into a collection. “The circumstances of the first edition of the fourfold gospel,” concludes Bruce, “must be a matter of speculation, since historical evidence is lacking.”58 What we do know is that the Gospels
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