[Invincibly Ignorant]

That editor is the Church.

See my 46840.

[RobbyS]

"The Church" collected and preserved the Christian Scriptures. No matter how one defines" The Church,"the Canon was only gradually finalized. Not until the 13th Century was the entire Bible published and widely distributed in the format we know. As you correctly point out, the first churches were synagogues and the "Old Testament"books were therefore the first Scriptuire available to all. It was probably decades before Christians everywhere got to look at what we call the New Testament. It took even longer to decide which of the many Christian writings were authentic.