Primary source
Festal Letter 39
Athanasius’s AD 367 canon list, the first surviving list matching the 27-book New Testament.
- Author
- Athanasius of Alexandria
- Tradition
- Early Christian writing
- Accessed
- 2026-06-18
Where this source is used
- Constantine changed the BibleThe four Gospels were received long before Constantine, and the records of Nicaea show no vote on the Bible's contents and no removal of books.
- The reliability of the BibleVariants in the manuscripts are real and openly catalogued. They show a text copied many times in many places, which is why its earliest wording can be recovered.