Canons
Frank Kermode, 2 February 1984
Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism
by James Barr.
Oxford, 181 pp., £13, June 1983,0 19 826323 6 Show More
by James Barr.
Oxford, 181 pp., £13, June 1983,
Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth
by Edmund Leach and D. Alan Aycock.
Cambridge, 170 pp., £15, September 1983,0 521 25491 4 Show More
by Edmund Leach and D. Alan Aycock.
Cambridge, 170 pp., £15, September 1983,
“... the present era: but according to Barr, whatever may have happened at that Council had nothing to do with canon. And the so-called Alexandrian canon of the Greek Old Testament isn’t a canon at all – just the Torah plus some other books. And even if it were proper to speak of a Jewish canon, it was much less important than it appears ‘to those who have ... ”
