Scripture · 367 CE

Athanasius lists 27 books

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In his Easter letter for 367, Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria named the 27 books that make up today's New Testament, the earliest surviving list to match it exactly. It recorded one church's practice rather than settling the question: Syriac churches long used a New Testament of 22 books, and doubts about Revelation lingered in the Greek East.

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