Formation of the Bible: the Story of the Church's Canon

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Formation of the Bible: the Story of the Church's Canon is written by Lee Martin McDonald and published by Hendrickson Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1598568388 (ISBN 10) and 9781598568387 (ISBN 13).

Well-known for his scholarly works on the formation of the biblical canon, Lee McDonald has written a carefully researched and reasoned explanation on the history of the formation of the Bible expressly for the interested pastor and curious layman. Combining a lifelong commitment to the Scriptures, both as a pastor and as a scholar, McDonald approaches his task with sensitivity to the importance of these sacred texts as well as with the thoughtful practice of a person steeped in the process by which these texts were brought together to form the Bible as the church knows it now. From the collection (and translations) of the Hebrew Scriptures through the collection of the New Testament Scriptures, and finally the process of settling on the final forms for these collections, McDonald leads his reader right up to the present moment.