TY - BOOK AU - Vahan Hovhanessian PY - 2012 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9781453905296 TI - The Canon of the Bible and the Apocrypha in the Churches of the East DO - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0529-6 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050995 N2 - The Canon of the Bible and the Apocrypha in the Churches of the East features essays reflecting the latest scholarly research in the field of the canon of the Bible and related apocryphal books, with special attention given to the early Christian literature of Eastern churches. These essays study and examine issues and concepts related to the biblical canon as well as non-canonical books that circulated in the early centuries of Christianity among Christian and non-Christian communities, claiming to be authored by biblical characters, such as the prophets and kings of the Old Testament and the apostles of the New Testament. KW - Bible, Apocrypha, Old Testament, New Testament, Orthodox, Pseudepigrapha, Canon LA - English ER -