Benjamin Laird on Creating the Canon

Benjamin Laird joins the show to discuss his new book Creating the Canon. We discuss how the New Testament authors wrote their books and how this is different from the typical assumption. Benjamin also explained the process of how the New Testament canon was assembled by the ancient church. Finally, we talked about the authorship of Hebrews and who Benjamin believes wrote that book.

Benjamin P. Laird (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is an associate professor of biblical studies at the John W. Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University. His recent publications include The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity, 40 Questions about the Apostle Paul, Five Views on the New Testament Canon, and the forthcoming The New Testament Canon in Contemporary Research. He lives in Lynchburg, Virginia, with his wife and five children.

Resources

  • Get Creating the Canon at the link to Amazon.

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