The Canon of the Bible and the Apocrypha in the Churches of the East

The findings here were presented and discussed at meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature in Rome in July 2009 and in New Orleans in November 2009. The essays cover the canon of scripture in the Orthodox Church, the Prayer of Manasses: Orthodox tradition and modern studies in dialogue, the Testament of Solomon and other pseudepigraphical material in Ahkam Sulayman (Judgment of Solomon), the Book of Wisdom of Solomon in the Armenian Church literature and liturgy, The New Testament Romanian amulet text Visul Maicii Domnului (The Dream of the Mother of the Lord), banning from the lectionary: excluding the Apocalypse of John from the Orthodox New Testament canon, and New Testament Apocrypha and the Armenian version of the Bible. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Vahan S. Hovhanessian holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies from Fordham University. He is currently the chairman of the ?Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions? unit of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and an ?Honourary Research Fellow? at Cardiff University, United Kingdom. He has published books, chapters in books, and many articles in Arabic, Armenian, and English in the fields of biblical and early Church studies. He is an ordained Bishop in the Armenian Orthodox Church tradition and the Primate of the Armenian Church of the United Kingdom and Ireland.