Our Beans

I recently came across this comment from Stephen Langton (d. 1228) in regard to the Prayer of Manasseh and its position at the end of the bo...

If you read the Bible and it makes you feel warm and cozy inside, you may be sure that you are reading it wrong.  --a comment attributed t...

This week I received the newly published Sources chrétiennes (no. 592) volume containing the Préfaces aux livres de la Bible  by Jerome, edi...

If you study much about the biblical canon in the Latin tradition, you will eventually run across a statement about how some books are in th...

By "later" in the title of this post, I mean later than the fourth century. As for canon lists in the fourth century and earlier, ...

Theodulf (760–821 CE; see Ann Freeman's article ) became bishop of Orléans  (75 miles south of Paris) in 797/8. He wrote in many genres:...

The German theologian Johann Philipp Gabler (1753–1826) is often given credit for distinguishing biblical theology from systematic theology,...