The New Testament canon remains a major topic in scholarly research. This comprehensive volume provides a forum for scholars from varied backgrounds and perspectives to present major essays on the various dimensions of the topic. The essays are organized around three major foci: the formation of the canon, the components of the canon, and the witnesses of the canon, within which are several sub-sections. Following a treatment of various factors that prompted the formation of the New Testament canon, the subsequent sections include essays that present opposing views on specific questions of current debate.
Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He has written on most areas of New Testament studies, most recently Hermeneutics, Linguistics, and the Bible: The Importance of Context (Bloomsbury/Clark, 2024). Benjamin P. Laird, Ph.D. (2016), University of Aberdeen, serves as Professor of Biblical Studies at the John W. Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University. He has published several works on the formation of the New Testament canon.
