Canon and Religious Truth: An Appraisal of A New New Testament

Moberly, R.W.L.

Abstract

I hope that some of the well-worn questions about the nature, purpose, and function of the biblical canon may be cast in a fresh light if we step back from familiar debates about canon in antiquity and choose a con temporary focus instead. Thus, I propose to consider the recent (2013) publication of A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21stCentury Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts, edited with a commentary by Hal Taussig.¹ Every biblical scholar is familiar with collections of ancient documents that have been brought together to illustrate the wider world of the Bible. Most...

Citation

Moberly, R. (2017). Canon and Religious Truth: An Appraisal of A New New Testament. In T. H. Lim, & K. Akiyama (Eds.), When texts are canonized (108-136). Brown Judaic Studies

• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jul 24, 2017
• Pages: 108-136
• Series Title: Brown Judaic studies
• Book Title: When texts are canonized.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1639009
• Publisher URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1pk86xb.12