Bibliography | Canons, Creeds, Confessions & Catechisms | Part 1

Canon Lists

Jewish Canon Lists

1. Titus Flavius Josephus (37 — ca. 100), born Yoseph bar Mattityahu. Against Apion 1.37-42 (after AD 94).
   • Barclay, John M.G. 2007. Against Apion, vol. 10: Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, ed. Steve Mason. Leiden: Brill.
   • Beckwith, Roger. 1985. The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
   • Leiman, Sid Z. 1976. The Canonization of Hebrew Scripture: The Talmudic and Midrashic Evidence. Hamden, CT: Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2. Babylonian Talmud. Tractate Baba Bathra 14b (from the Baraitot).

Greek Christian Lists

1. The Bryennios List (BL; from MS composed ca. AD 100-150; cp’d in AD 1056)
   • 12 lines on fol. 76a, between 2 Clement and the Didache 
2. Epiphanius, Mens. 23 
3. Melito of Sardis (170 AD). Extracts by Melito via Eusebius’ Hist. eccl. 4.26.12–14.
4. Origen of Alexandria.
   • Selecta in Psalmos 1 (AD 220s) 
   • Commentary on Matthew 1
   • Commentary on John 5 (ca. 230)
   • Homilies on Joshua 7.1 (ca. 250; extant in Rufinus’ translation, ca. 400) 
5. Eusebius of Caesarea.
   • Ecclesiastical History 3.25 (ca. 325)
6. Cyril of Alexandria.
   • Catechesis 4.33-6 (ca. 350) 

Fourth Century Lists

1. Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 324). 
2. Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 350). 
3. Hilary of Poitiers (c. 360). 
4. The Cheltenham List (c. 360). 
5. Council of Laodicea (c. 363). 
6. Letter of Athanasius (367). 
7. Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 380). 
8. Amphilocius of Iconium (c. 380). 
9. The “Apostolic Canons” (c. 380). 
10. Epiphanius (c. 385). 
11. Augustine (c. 397). 
12. Third Council of Carthage (397). 

Fifth Century Lists

1. Rufinus of Aquileia (c. 400). 
2. Codex Claromontanus (c. 400). 
3. Letter of Innocent I (405). 

Later Centuries

1. Decree of Gelasius (c. 550). 
2. Synopsis Scripturae Sacrae (c. 550). 
3. John of Damascus (c. 730).