Reverend Doctor Lee Martin McDonald

How did authority function before the bible as we know it emerged? Reverend Doctor Lee Martin McDonald examines the authorities that existed from the Church’s beginning: the appeal to the texts containing the words of Jesus that would become the New Testament, the not yet finalised Hebrew Scriptures (referred to mostly in Greek), and the apostolic leadership of the churches....

Lee Martin McDonald provides a magisterial overview of the development of the biblical canon—the emergence of the list of individual texts that constitutes the Christian bible. In these two volumes—more than double the length of his previous works—McDonald presents his most in-depth overview to date. He shows students and researchers how the list of texts that constitute the bible was...

Lee Martin McDonald provides a magisterial overview of the development of the biblical canon — the emergence of the list of individual texts that constitutes the Christian Bible. In these two volumes — in sum more than double the length of his previous works — McDonald presents his most in-depth overview to date. McDonald shows students and researchers how the...