2.To include in the biblical canon. 3.To include in a literary canon. 4.To approve as being within canon law. 5.To treat as sacred; glorify. can′on·i·za′tion(-ĭ-zā′shən)n. can′on·iz′ern. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyrig...
biblical criticism See all related content The canon The term canon, from a Hebrew-Greek word meaning “cane” or “measuring rod,” passed into Christian usage to mean “norm” or “rule of faith.” The Church Fathers of the 4th century ce first employed it in reference to the definitiv...
Biblical literature - Medieval, Canon, Interpretation: By the beginning of the Middle Ages, the Masoretes of Babylonia and Palestine (6th–10th century) had fixed in writing, by points and annotation, the traditional pronunciation, punctuation, and (to s
Beginning with Zeitlin and Rivkin, who described biblical canonization in terms of a "power elite" securing its position, the authors describe questions that have stimulated post鈥恗odern skepticism about the stability of canons. The paper offers guidelines for the selection of new material into ...
McClintock and Strong Biblical CyclopediaCanon of ScriptureCanon Of Scripture, as the phrase is usually employed, may be defined as "the Authoritative Standard of Religion and Morals, composed of those writings which have been given for this purpose by God to men." A definition frequently given ...
Plato may not seem to be the most apt starting point for a discussion of the biblical canon, but I suggest that he might be. Though his views were not always correct, he did manage to make several rather permanent advances in human civilization. Perhaps one of the most frequently applied—...
In Gratian’sDecretum,the mostimportantcanonicalcollectionof the12thcen-tury,¹²whichgathered theso calledius vetusof theChurch,we stillencounterthepairof opposites“wake–sleep”¹³.Itisapparentlyasimpleliterarycontrast,notstrictlyrelated to legalissues,butit is heavilygroundedin biblicalsources, ...
Before the Bodmer documents were discovered in Egypt in 1952, it said, biblical scholars relied on references to the Gospels in the writings of the early church theologians to assert that by the year 100 the Christian community had accepted only four Gospels as inspired texts. ...
was praised in aNew York Timeseditorial as a work of Whitmanian magnitude, and its sincerity is indeed overwhelming; it joins all the other instantly canonical achievements that flood our academies. The unhappy truth is that we cannot help ourselves; we can resist, up to a point, but past ...
Not only is the biblical Jesus more reliable, but he is more preferable. The canonical gospels teach that Jesus had women disciples (Lk. 8:1-3). In the first century, it was considered scandalous and unacceptable for a rabbi to have female disciples. However, the gospel of Thomas pictures...