A volume of texts and translations of canon-lists in early Christianity, specifically from the first four centuries CE on the grounds that this is the most formative period in the development of the early Christian canon.

• Introduction


• 1: The Development of the Christian Biblical Canon: A Survey of the Early Period


• 2: Jewish Lists


• Josephus


• Babylonian Talmud


• 3: Greek Christian Lists


• Bryennios List


• Melito of Sardis


• Origen of Alexandria


• Eusebius of Caesarea


• Cyril of Jerusalem


• Athanasius of Alexandria


• Synod of Laodicea


• Apostolic Canons


• Gregory of Nazianzus


• Amphilochius of Iconium


• Epiphanius of Salamis


• 4: Latin Christian Lists


• Muratorian Fragment


• Mommsen Catalogue


• Hilary of Poitiers


• Jerome of Stridon


• Rufinus of Aquileia


• Breviarium Hipponense


• Augustine of Hippo


• Codex Claromantanus


• Pope Innocent I


• 5: Syriac Christian List


• St. Catherine's Monastery Syriac List


• 6: Selected Greek, Syriac, Latin, and Hebrew Manuscripts


• Appendix: Antilegomena and the More Prominent Apocrypha.


• Bibliography

Edmon L. Gallagher is Associate Professor of Christian Scripture at Heritage Christian University in Florence, Alabama. He is the author of Hebrew Scripture in Patristic Biblical Theory (Brill, 2012).
John D. Meade is Associate Professor at Phoenix Seminary in Phoenix, Arizona.