{"title":"The Muratorian Fragment: Text, Translation, Commentary, by Clare K. Rothschild","authors":"C. Stenschke","doi":"10.1080/2222582X.2022.2131998","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Considered by many scholars to be the oldest witness in Latin for an authorised canon of New Testament books, the so-called Muratorian Canon has attracted much attention since its discovery in 1740. In the context of different issues of New Testament introduction, this canon is regularly referred to as evidence in establishing the early existence of a New Testament canon and in reconstructions of the history of ancient Christianity. Despite its significance, the text has not been examined with sufficient critical acumen, as Rothschild points out:","PeriodicalId":40708,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Christian History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Early Christian History","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2222582X.2022.2131998","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Considered by many scholars to be the oldest witness in Latin for an authorised canon of New Testament books, the so-called Muratorian Canon has attracted much attention since its discovery in 1740. In the context of different issues of New Testament introduction, this canon is regularly referred to as evidence in establishing the early existence of a New Testament canon and in reconstructions of the history of ancient Christianity. Despite its significance, the text has not been examined with sufficient critical acumen, as Rothschild points out: