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Canonical Contents

• A critique of Canaan Banana's call to rewrite the Bible - by Stephen A. Reed, Religion & Theology 3/3 (1996); full text
• All Scripture Is Inspired by God. . . Thoughts on the Old Testament Canon - by Joel Kalvesmaki, Orthodox Christian Information Center
• The Apocrypha and the Old Testament
• Canons of the Hebrew Bible - by Dennis Bratcher, Christian Resource Institute
• The Canon of Scripture - by F. F. Bruce, Inter-Varsity (Autumn 1954) 19–22
• The Canon of the Old Testament - by Edward J. Young, pp. 158–168 in Carl F.H. Henry, ed., Revelation and the Bible: Contemporary Evangelical Thought (Baker, 1958/Tyndale, 1959)
• The Hebrew and Christian Bibles: A Comparative Chart - by Felix Just, Loyola Marymount University
• The Old Testament as Canon
• The Old Testament Canon
• Variable Sequencing of Books in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament - prepared by Lyle Eslinger, University of Calgary

Canonical Process

• Loose Canons: Reflections on the Formation of the Hebrew Bible - by Philip R. Davies, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 1 (1997)
• Spinning the Bible - unsigned (= by Hershel Shanks?) "feature article" from Bible Review (June 1998)
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Formation of the Canon - by Francis I. Anderson, Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 1.3 (Summer 1958) 1–7

Pedagogy

• Old Testament Canon - a resource for TH 312 Revelation and Scripture at Prairie Bible Institute

Relation of the Testaments in Christianity

• On the Unity of the Two Testaments - by H.B. Swete, The Christian Advocate and Review 62 (1866); full text

Book Reviews

• Ballhorn, Egbert and Georg Steins, eds., Der Bibelkanon in der Bibelauslegung: Methodenreflexionen und Beispielexegesen (Kohlhammer, 2007) - reviewed by Daniel R. Driver, Review of Biblical Literature (2008)
• Finkelberg, Margalit and Guy G. Stroumsa, eds., Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World (Brill, 2003)
  • Reviewed by Thomas Römer, Review of Biblical Literature (2006)
  • Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas, Review of Biblical Literature (2006)
• MacDonald, Lee Martin, The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and Authority (Hendrickson, 2007)
  • Reviewed by David Chapman, Review of Biblical Literature (2007)
  • Reviewed by Thomas Hieke, TC 12 (2007)
• McDonald, Lee Martin and James A. Sanders, eds., The Canon Debate (Hendrickson, 2002) - reviewed by Ian Young, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)
• Porter, Stanley, ed., Hearing the Old Testament in the New (Eerdmans, 2006)
  • Reviewed by Gert J. Steyn, Review of Biblical Literature (2007)
  • Reviewed by Michael Labhan, Review of Biblical Literature (2007)
• Saebø, Magne, On the Way to Canon: Creative Tradition History in the Old Testament (Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) - reviewed by Timothy M. Willis, Review of Biblical Literature
• Steinmann, Andrew E., The Oracles of God: The Old Testament Canon (Concordia, 1999) - reviewed by Christopher L. K. Grundke, Review of Biblical Literature