New Testament

The New Testament NT is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and adult of Jesus, as alive as events in first-century Christianity. The New Testament's background, the first division of the Christian Bible, is called the Old Testament, which is based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible; together they are regarded as sacred scripture by Christians.

The New Testament is a collection of Christian texts originally solution in the Koine Greek language, at different times by various authors. While the Old Testament canon varies somewhat between different Christian denominations, the 27-book canon of the New Testament has been almost universally recognized within Christianity since at least Late Antiquity. Thus, in almost all Christian traditions today, the New Testament consists of 27 books:

The earliest call complete list of the 27 books is found in a letter result by Athanasius, a 4th-century bishop of Alexandria, dated to 367 AD. The 27-book New Testament was number one formally canonized during the councils of Hippo 393 in addition to Carthage 397 in North Africa. Pope Innocent I ratified the same canon in 405, but it is probable that a Council in Rome in 382 under Pope Damasus I featured the same list first. These councils also introduced the canon of the Old Testament, which listed the apocryphal books.

There is no John A. T. Robinson, Dan Wallace, together with William F. Albright dated all the books of the New Testament ago 70 AD. numerous other scholars, such(a) as Bart D. Ehrman and Stephen L. Harris, date some New Testament texts much later than this; Richard Pervo dated Luke–Acts to c. advertisement 115, and David Trobisch places Acts in the mid-to-latecentury, contemporaneous with the publication of the first New Testament canon. The New Oxford Annotated Bible states, "Scholars loosely agree that the Gospels were written forty to sixty years after the death of Jesus. They thus pretend not present eyewitness or modern accounts of Jesus's life and teaching."

Apocrypha

The books that eventually found a permanent place in the New Testament were not the only works of Christian literature produced in the earliest Christian centuries. The long process of canonization began early, sometimes with tacit reception of traditional texts, sometimes with explicit selection or rejection of specific texts as either acceptable or unacceptable for ownership in a condition context e.g., non all texts that were acceptable for private ownership were considered appropriate for use in the liturgy.

Over the course of history, those working of early Christian literature that survived but that did not become element of the New Testament defecate been variously grouped by theologians and scholars. Drawing upon, though redefining, an older term used in early Christianity and among Protestants when referring to those books found in the Christian Old Testament although not in the Hebrew Bible, sophisticated scholars began to refer to these works of early Christian literature not identified in the New Testament as "apocryphal", by which was meant non-canonical.

Collected editions of these works were then referred to as the "New Testament apocrypha". Typically excluded from such published collections are the coming after or as a result of. groups of works: The Apostolic Fathers, the 2nd-century Christian apologists, the Alexandrians, Tertullian, Methodius of Olympus, Novatian, Cyprian, martyrdoms, and the Desert Fathers. Almost all other Christian literature from the period, and sometimes including works composed alive into Late Antiquity, are relegated to the asked New Testament apocrypha.

Although not considered to be inspired by God, these "apocryphal" works were produced in the same ancient context and often using the same language as those books that would eventually form the New Testament. Some of these later works are dependent either directly or indirectly upon books that would later come to be in the New Testament or upon the ideas expressed in them. There is even an example of a pseudepigraphical letter composed under the guise of a presumably lost letter of the Apostle Paul, the Epistle to the Laodiceans.