The Making of the New Testament: Origin, Collection, Text & Canon AUTH-12128516 ISBN13: 9780804744539

ISBN13: 9780804744539

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Add to his interest in Natural Law the sociopolitical climate of seventeenth-century England--steeped in violent civil war

from which it disappeared

The Making of the New Testament: Origin, Collection, Text & Canon AUTH-12128516 ISBN13: 9780804744539The story of the making of the New Testament is one in which scrolls bumped across cobbled Roman roads and pitched through rolling Mediterranean seas, finally finding their destinations in stuffy, dimly lit Christian house churches in Corinth or Colossae. There they were read aloud and reread, handled and copied, forwarded and collected, studied and treasured. And eventually they were brought together to make up our New Testament. This revised and