Includes bibliographical references (p. [599]-623) and indexes.

Introduction / Lee Martin McDonald and James A. Sanders -- The notion and definition of canon / Eugene Ulrich -- The Jewish scriptural canon in cultural perspective / Philip R. Davies -- The formation of the Hebrew Bible canon : Isaiah as a test case / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- The Septuagint : the Bible of Hellenistic Judaism / Albert C. Sundberg Jr. -- Questions of canon viewed through the Dead Sea Scrolls / James C. VanderKam -- Josephus and his twenty-two book canon / Steve Mason -- Origins of a tripartite Old Testament canon / Julio C. Trebolle Barrera -- Jamnia revisited / Jack P. Lewis -- The rabbis' Bible : the canon of the Hebrew Bible and the early rabbinic guild / Jack N. Lightstone -- The Scriptures of Jesus and his earliest followers / Craig A. Evans -- The Old Testament apocrypha in the early church and today / Daniel J. Harrington -- The pseudepigrapha in the early church / William Adler -- The codex and canon consciousness / Robert A. Kraft -- The status of the masoretic text in modern text editions of the Hebrew Bible : the relevance of canon / Emanuel Tov -- The issue of closure in the canonical process / James A. Sanders -- The New Testament canon : recent research and the status quaestionis / Harry Y. Gamble -- Factors leading to the selection and closure of the New Testament canon : a survey of some recent studies / Everett Ferguson -- Reflections on Jesus and the New Testament canon / William R. Farmer -- Marcion revisited / John Barton -- Gnosticism and the Christian Bible / Pheme Perkins -- Evidence for an early Christian canon (second and third century) / Peter Balla -- The New Testament canon of Eusebius / Everett R. Kalin -- The muratorian fragment and the origins of the New Testament canon / Geoffrey Mark Hahneman -- Identifying Scripture and canon in the early church : the criteria question / Lee Martin McDonald -- The problem of pseudonymity in biblical literature and its implications for canon formation / Kent D. Clarke -- The Greek New Testament as a codex / Daryl D. Schmidt -- Issues in the interrelation of New Testament textual criticism and canon / Eldon Jay Epp -- The canonical structure of Gospel and apostle / Franeois Bovon -- The significance of a canonical perspective of the church's scripture / Robert W. Wall -- The once and future New Testament / Robert W. Funk -- Has the canon a continuing function? / James D.G. Dunn -- Appendixes. A: Primary sources for the study of the Old Testament and Hebrew Bible / Lee M. McDonald -- B: Primary sources for the study of the New Testament canon / Lee M. McDonald -- C: Lists and catalogues of ancient Scripture collections / Lee M. McDonald -- D: Current canons of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament / Lee M. McDonald.