Receptarea cărților Sf. Scripturi în corpusul canonico-legislativ al Bisericii Ortodoxe
Receptarea cărților Sf. Scripturi în corpusul canonico-legislativ al Bisericii Ortodoxe

Summary/Abstract: The Church"s holy prophets and Apostles wrote the books contained inthe Bible. The Church determined which books were authoritative and belonged in HolyScripture. The Church preserved and passed on the texts of these Scriptural books. Theseventy-two Jewish rabbis and scholars who gave us the Septuagint Greek Old Testament,produced seventy-two identical Greek translations working independently and in insolationfrom one another. Writing in Greek, the Holy Apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul,James, Peter, and Jude produced the books of the New Testament. The Bible is a product ofthe Church. For the first few centuries of the Christian era, no one could have put his handson a single volume called "The Bible." In fact, there was no one put his hands on a singlevolume called "The Bible." In fact, there was no agreement regarding which "books" ofScripture were to be considered accurate and correct, or canonical. Even so, there was noofficial, authoritative "canon" listing all the books until the Sixth Ecumenical Council, atConstantinople in 680 AD. When the Council at Laodicea specified the content of the bibleas we know it - 39 years after the First Ecumenical Council (325 AD) and 17 years beforethe second Ecumenical Council (381 AD) - the Liturgy was pretty much well-defined andestablished and had been "canonized" by common usage the reading from these books.

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