This blog follows Poul Anderson's texts wherever they go and they go everywhere. Anderson imagines a fictional continuation of the Semitic scriptural tradition.
A scripture, I think, is a writing regarded as authoritatively true on religious matters by members of a particular religion.
The Semitic tradition:
Samaritans accept only the Law;
the New Testament refers to the Law and the Prophets;
Luke 24:24 refers to the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms;
Marcion opposed "Gospel and Apostle" to Law and Prophets ("Gospel" = Luke's Gospel minus OT quotations; "Apostle" = Paul's Epitles);
the Christian Bible incorporated the Hebrew scriptures rearranged and a longer New Testament;
a Council of Rabbis in 100 AD closed their canon as the Law, the Prophets and the Writings;
Muhammad replaced the Bible with the Koran which incorporates some Biblical stories;
Luther excluded the Apocrypha;
Sikhs adopted the Granth which is hymns, some written by Muslims;
Mormons add the Book of Mormon;
Bahais have some additional texts;
Anderson's Johannites replace the OT with texts that others regard as blasphemous and adds to the NT a lot of the Apocrypha plus other texts from unidentifiable sources.
(Two meanings of "Apocrypha": excluded from the OT or not included in the NT.)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And of course the Catholic canon of the Bible included books accepted as canonical that Luther denied belonged in the Scriptures. That Catholic was authoritatively reaffirmed by the Council of Trent in 1546. Most Protestants call 1 and 2 Maccabees, Sirach, Wisdom, Tobit, etc., "apocryphal," while Catholics call them "deuterocanonical."
Ad astra! Sean
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