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

Moberly, R.W.L.

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

Moberly, R.W.L.

Authors

Professor Walter Moberly r.w.l.moberly@durham.ac.uk
Student Supervision

Contributors

Timothy H. Lim
Editor

Kengo Akiyama
Editor

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.
Publisher URL	https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1pk86xb.12