The canon debate

Introduction / Lee Martin McDonald and James A. Sanders

The notion and definition of canon / Eugene Ulrich

The Jewish scriptural canon in cultural perspective / Philip R. Davies

The formation of the Hebrew Bible canon : Isaiah as a test case / Joseph Blenkinsopp

The Septuagint : the Bible of Hellenistic Judaism / Albert C. Sundberg Jr.

Questions of canon viewed through the Dead Sea Scrolls / James C. VanderKam

Josephus and his twenty-two book canon / Steve Mason

Origins of a tripartite Old Testament canon / Julio C. Trebolle Barrera

Jamnia revisited / Jack P. Lewis

The rabbis' Bible : the canon of the Hebrew Bible and the early rabbinic guild / Jack N. Lightstone

The Scriptures of Jesus and his earliest followers / Craig A. Evans

The Old Testament apocrypha in the early church and today / Daniel J. Harrington

The pseudepigrapha in the early church / William Adler

The codex and canon consciousness / Robert A. Kraft

The status of the masoretic text in modern text editions of the Hebrew Bible : the relevance of canon / Emanuel Tov

The issue of closure in the canonical process / James A. Sanders

The New Testament canon : recent research and the status quaestionis / Harry Y. Gamble

Factors leading to the selection and closure of the New Testament canon : a survey of some recent studies / Everett Ferguson

Reflections on Jesus and the New Testament canon / William R. Farmer

Marcion revisited / John Barton

Gnosticism and the Christian Bible / Pheme Perkins

Evidence for an early Christian canon (second and third century) / Peter Balla

The New Testament canon of Eusebius / Everett R. Kalin

The muratorian fragment and the origins of the New Testament canon / Geoffrey Mark Hahneman

Identifying Scripture and canon in the early church : the criteria question / Lee Martin McDonald

The problem of pseudonymity in biblical literature and its implications for canon formation / Kent D. Clarke

The Greek New Testament as a codex / Daryl D. Schmidt

Issues in the interrelation of New Testament textual criticism and canon / Eldon Jay Epp

The canonical structure of Gospel and apostle / Franeois Bovon

The significance of a canonical perspective of the church's scripture / Robert W. Wall

The once and future New Testament / Robert W. Funk

Has the canon a continuing function? / James D.G. Dunn

Appendixes. A: Primary sources for the study of the Old Testament and Hebrew Bible / Lee M. McDonald

B: Primary sources for the study of the New Testament canon / Lee M. McDonald

C: Lists and catalogues of ancient Scripture collections / Lee M. McDonald

D: Current canons of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament / Lee M. McDonald.