TY - BOOK AU - Barclay, William TI - The Making of the Bible AV - BS465 .B582 1961 PY - 1961/// CY - New York : PB - Abingdon Press, KW - Bible Canon N1 - The making of the Old Testament -- The three sections -- The grandeur of the law -- The starting-point of scripture -- Some discrepancies -- The holiness code -- Other additions -- The prophets -- The prophets established -- The writings -- The people of the book -- The emergence of sacred scripture -- The Making of the New Testament -- The Old Testament, a Christian book -- Apostles, the living books -- End of the oral tradition -- The need of a written literature -- The words of Jesus -- The "forms" of the gospel -- How the New Testament emerged -- The apostolic authority -- The first Christian books -- Collecting Paul's letters -- Making the collection -- The gospels win their place -- A written gospel -- Authoritative and Sacred -- Discarding the Old Testament? -- The Church's decision -- Closing the books -- The final completion -- The final test -- Authority of the books -- Does the book speak of Christ? Faith in a living Savior ER -