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- Title
The Formation and Significance of the Christian Biblical Canon: A Study in Text, Ritual and Interpretation.
- Authors
Forness, Philip Michael
- Abstract
To support this thesis, Bokedal divides the study into an introduction and four parts: (1) linguistic and tradition-related aspects of the canon, (2) material and textual aspects, (3) performative aspects, and (4) ideational aspects. The first two chapters help define the canon materially: Early Christians marked their texts as holy through I nomina sacra i , and the codex defined the canon's shape and extent materially. However, the book often reads as a summary of prior research with little that is new both in regard to the historical investigation of the canon or the meaning of the formation of the canon for modern theological interpretation.
- Subjects
BIBLICAL studies; RITUAL; HISTORY; CHRISTIAN communities; PRIMITIVE &; early church, ca. 30-600; BIBLICAL literalism
- Publication
Reviews in Religion & Theology, 2020, Vol 27, Issue 2, p185
- ISSN
1350-7303
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/rirt.13774