Lost New Testament

Many more scripture-like books were left out of the New Testament than made it in. We'll explore why.

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The New Testament contains a hodge-podge of 27 books by different authors: gospels, letters, a book of acts, and an apocalypse. Why did these texts make it into the canon and what texts were left out?

0:00 HISTORY, THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY LECTURES
2:56 The New Testament: Multiple Texts
6:49 The Evolution of the Canon Took Centuries
15:57 How Did Texts Make It into the Canon?
20:10 What Kept Texts Out of the Canon?
22:55 The Book of Revelation: Just Squeaks In
25:22 Lost and Found Texts
32:08 Quotations from The Gospel of the Hebrews
35:00 Texts Absorbed into Other Texts and Reconstructed
39:24 Mustard Seed Saying
42:40 Quotations from The Gospel of Thomas
45:43 Thomas's Relationship with Synoptics
47:43 Quotations from The Dialogue of the Savior
52:06 Quotations from the Didache
55:19 Preserved Texts Omitted from the Canon: The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
56:48 Quotations from The Infancy Gospel of Thomas