Ah, yes. Those 66 books that the Apostles and several generations of early Christians had no concept of.
LOL! Suits me fine. They had the Tanakh, which is enough.
Well, they all had the OT, right? (Minus the OT deuterocanonicals, which didn't show up as part of the Septuagint until about the 4th-5th Century.) So they had the law and the prophets, as Jesus so often referred to them, right out of the gate.
And this part boggles my mind. How can anyone think they didn't have the Gospels and the epistles within the first generation or two? They were apostolic work product. They HAD to exist during the apostolic era. There's even a physical fragment of John that dates to about 125. So while they didn't necessarily have them all neat and organized like we do, they were contemporary to the first years of the church. The ecclesia of Christ, the one that would overcome even the gates of Hell, has never been without Scripture.
Peace,
SR