The Muratorian Fragment

papyrusNamed for L. A. Muratori (d. 1750), the Italian scholar who discovered it in an eighth-century copy, this fragment by an unknown author, probably of the late second century, is the earliest known list of books intended as a New Testament canon. It includes all the books later considered canonical except Hebrews, James, and 1 and 2 Peter; it also includes the Wisdom of Solomon and the Apocalypse of Peter. The indications of books to be rejected display the Read the rest