In chapter two of his excellent study of Jewish literature from the Second Temple period (586 BC - 135 AD), Larry Helyer discusses the Apocrypha (mostly Tobit and the Additions to the Book of Daniel). In this chapter, Helyer takes some time to explain how a knowledge of the Apocrypha can be a helpful tool …
A Closed Canon
In 1934, Walter Bauer argued that there was no clear line between heresy and orthodoxy in the early church, but since the orthodox were stronger, their views eventually prevailed in what we now call the New Testament (a sort of survival of the fittest). Bart Ehrman has taken this thesis and run with it. …
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