Our New Testament: How Did We Get It?

Excerpt from Our New Testament: How Did We Get It?

This list does not profess to be exhaustive, but only to give the titles of the books most consulted in the writing of this book, and most frequently referred to in its pages. They are also the books most accessible to any who may wish to carry their studies on the Canon further.

Charteris, "Canonicity: a Collection of Early Testimonies to the Canonical books of the New Testament." Edinburgh, 1880. A storehouse of fact. Anybody who has and masters this book, knows all that is to be known about the early history of the Canon.

Ferris, "The Formation of the New Testament." Philadelphia, 1907. Excellent in spirit and style, but gives a very incomplete view of the facts, and is singularly unfortunate in its generalizations.

Gregory, "Canon and Text of the New Testament." International Theological Library, New York, 1907. Conservative and judicious in tone, scholarly in substance, but in style hardly in keeping with the series of which it is a member.

Harnack, "Geschichte der altchristlichen Littcratur bis Eusebius" Zweiter Theil: Die Chronologie. Band I. Bis Iremeus, Leipzig, 1897. Band II. Von Irenaeus bis Eusebius, Leipzig, 1904; "History of Dogma." Translated from the third edition by Neil Buchanan. Seven volumes, Boston, 1896-1900; "Das Neue Testament um das Jahr 200" Freiburg, 1889. Harnack has written no book on the Canon, but his views are pretty fully set forth in the volumes and pamphlet above named. He is always learned, frequently brilliant, and sometimes a safe guide. He can never be ignored.

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