The first attempt to create Chrsitian 'canon' was made by none other than Marcion (the heretic some Baptists like to call their own) in the 2nd century, so your sources are 'beliefs' as you say (probably without relaizing it):
There was no Christian canon in those days. That's some woodoo scholarship you are citing. The fact is that even Athansius whom you love so much believed at least two apocryphal books to be scripture. But that was two hundred years after the fanatasy you quoted about the early 2nd century. At that time, all sorts of books were being read as scripture in early churches.
One Clement (96 AD) paraphrases the book of Hebrews but does not cosnider it scriptutre. the only thing he considers scripture is the Old Testament. That's because the Gospels were still being written.
Citation please.
The first attempt to create Chrsitian 'canon' was made by none other than Marcion (the heretic some Baptists like to call their own) in the 2nd century, so your sources are 'beliefs' as you say (probably without relaizing it):
Marcion was the first to make an offical Canon, rejecting the Old Testament for the new.
The Canon was well known before Marcion made his.
His heresy only spurred the 'offical' listing of canonical books, not the acceptance of them by the individual churches, which had already occured.
He believes (emphasis added) that the gospels originally circulated individually yet rapidly, so that by the early second century (emphasis added) they were present together in church librries of major centers There was no Christian canon in those days. That's some woodoo scholarship you are citing. The fact is that even Athansius whom you love so much believed at least two apocryphal books to be scripture. But that was two hundred years after the fanatasy you quoted about the early 2nd century. At that time, all sorts of books were being read as scripture in early churches.
What was being read was scripture and it was recognized as scripture.
The only churches that had a time disquiquishing the correct Canon were the Alexandrian churches, of which Athanasius was a Father of.
It was the Alexandrian churches who long held to the Apocrypha books in both Old and New Testaments, as shown by their acceptance in their manuscripts, A,B and Aleph.
One Clement (96 AD) paraphrases the book of Hebrews but does not cosnider it scriptutre. the only thing he considers scripture is the Old Testament. That's because the Gospels were still being written.
The Scriptures were finished by 90AD and all of the NT accepted by the local churches by 100-150AD.
And that includes the Book of Hebrews, which was viewed as being written by Paul.
It was the 'offical' listing of the Canon that called into controversy some books, not the acceptance of them by the individual churches.
David then began fighting wars against Israel’s neighbors on the east bank of the Jordan. He defeated the Moabites, the Edomites, the Ammonites and the Arameans. These wars began as defensive wars, but ended with the establishment of a Davidic empire that extended over both sides of the Jordan River, as far as the Mediterranean Sea. David enforced justice in his empire and established civil and military administrations in Jerusalem, modeled after those of the Canaanites and Egyptians. He divided the country into twelve districts, each with its own civil, military and religious institutions. He also established Jerusalem as the secular and religious center of the country. Each district paid taxes to Jerusalem and the people began to make pilgrimages to Jerusalem each year on the holidays of Passover, Shavout and Sukkot.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/David.html