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Glossary Definition of word.
canon
There are several uses of the word canon. In the humanities courses of the Bible, canon refers to the accepted books (or, writings) of the Bible. The Bible includes sixty-six books: thirty-nine books of the Old Testament and twenty-seven books of the New Testament. The Jewish canon includes twenty-two books which are a perfect match with the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament.
Click here for a listing of the books of the Bible with abbreviations as found in the Table of Contents of Balancing the Sword (Vol. 1). The Balancing the Sword books cover all sixty-six books within the universal Christian canon.
Generically, a canon is an accepted collection of work by an author. For example, the prophet Jeremiah gave numerous prophecies (at various times and to different individuals) which were combined into one canon or book named Jeremiah.
See Apocrypha or deuterocanonical as related topics. |
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