Editing Muratorian fragment (section)

== Canon list ==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Book
! Muratorian Canon
! Present canon{{efn|name=canon|The [[Assyrian Church of the East]] does not recognise the following books: 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, Epistle of Jude, Apocalypse of John.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bethkokheh.assyrianchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/catechism-of-the-Church-of-the-East-edited-in-the-year-2020.pdf |title=Catechism of The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East |pages=23–24 |access-date=June 17, 2024}}</ref>  It also rejects certain verses of books as non-canonical: Matthew 27:35(b), Luke 22:17-18, John 7:53, 8:1-11, Acts 8:37, 15:34 and 28:29, and 1 John 5:7.}}
|-
![[Gospel of Matthew]]
| {{optional|Probably}}{{efn|name=Gospels|The beginning of the Muratorian Canon is lost; the fragment that has survived, starts by listing "the third book of the Gospel, that according to Luke, […] the fourth Gospel is that of John, one of the disciples". Historians therefore assume that the first two gospels would have been Matthew and Mark, although this remains uncertain.}}|| {{Yes}}
|-
![[Gospel of Mark]]
| {{optional|Probably}}{{efn|name=Gospels}}|| {{Yes}}
|-
![[Gospel of Luke]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Gospel of John]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Acts of the Apostles]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Epistle to the Romans|Romans]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[First Epistle to the Corinthians|1 Corinthians]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Second Epistle to the Corinthians|2 Corinthians]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Epistle to the Galatians|Galatians]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Epistle to the Ephesians|Ephesians]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Epistle to the Philippians|Philippians]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Epistle to the Colossians|Colossians]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[First Epistle to the Thessalonians|1 Thessalonians]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Second Epistle to the Thessalonians|2 Thessalonians]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[First Epistle to Timothy|1 Timothy]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Second Epistle to Timothy|2 Timothy]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Epistle to Titus|Titus]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Epistle to Philemon|Philemon]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
![[Epistle to the Hebrews|Hebrews]]
| {{No}} || {{Yes}}{{efn|name = luther|[[Martin Luther]] doubted the canonicity of Hebrews, James, Jude and the Apocalypse of John. He showed this by the way in which he ordered them. However, he did incorporate the books in his canon, and all Lutheran communities have done so since.}}
|-
![[Epistle of James|James]]
| {{No}} || {{Yes}}{{efn|name = luther}}
|-
![[First Epistle of Peter|1 Peter]]
| {{No}}|| {{Yes}}
|-
![[Second Epistle of Peter|2 Peter]]
| {{No}}|| {{Yes}}
|-
![[First Epistle of John|1 John]]
| {{optional|Probably}}{{efn|name=John|The Muratorian fragment mentions two letters by John, but gives little clues as to which ones. Therefore, it is not known which of the three was excluded that would later be considered canonical. [[Bruce Metzger]] thought that the Muratorian fragment cites 1 John 1:1-3 when it says: "What marvel is it then, if John so consistently mentions these particular points also in his Epistles, saying about himself, 'What we have seen with our eyes and heard with our ears and our hands have handled, these things we have written to you?'".<ref>{{harvnb|Metzger|1987|p=306}}</ref>}}|| {{Yes}}
|-
![[Second Epistle of John|2 John]]
| {{Maybe}}{{efn|name=John}}|| {{Yes}}
|-
![[Third Epistle of John|3 John]]
| {{Maybe}}{{efn|name=John}}|| {{Yes}}
|-
![[Epistle of Jude|Jude]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}{{efn|name = luther}}
|-
![[Book of Revelation|Apocalypse of John]]
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}{{efn|name = luther}}
|-
![[Apocalypse of Peter]]
| {{Yes}}{{efn|name=Apocalypse|With some reservation however: "though some amongst us will not have [the Apocalypse of Peter] read in the Church."}} || {{No}}
|-
![[Wisdom of Solomon]]
| {{Yes}} || Varies by denomination{{efn|name=Wisdom|The [[Wisdom of Solomon]] is accepted as a canonical part of the Old Testament by Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches and also by the Assyrian Church of the East. Most Protestants consider it apocryphal.}}
|}

===Rejected works===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Book
! Muratorian Canon
! Comments
|-
![[Shepherd of Hermas]]
|style="background: #FF8; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center|Recommended
|The author admires it and suggests it should be read, but does not consider it a work of scripture as it was "recently written," and the author considered only works from prophets or apostles to be worthy of canonicity.
|-
![[Epistle to the Laodiceans]]
|{{No}}
|Called a forgery of [[Marcion of Sinope]] and his followers.  A [[Lost literary work|lost work]].
|-
![[Epistle to the Alexandrians]]
|{{No}}
|Called a forgery of [[Marcion of Sinope]] and his followers.  A [[Lost literary work|lost work]].
|-
!Works of Arsinous,<br/>[[Valentinus (Gnostic)|Valentinus]], Miltiades,<br/>and [[Basilides]]
|{{No}}
|Many of these were figures in [[Gnosticism]], a major sect of Christianity in the second century. The manuscript becomes impossible to read afterward, providing no explanation for why they were condemned.
|}