A biblical canon is a set of texts which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible.
A scroll of the Book of Esther, one of the five megillot of the Tanakh
The Abisha Scroll, the oldest scroll among the Samaritans in Nablus
A manuscript page from P46, an early 3rd-century collection of Pauline epistles
The contents page in a complete 80 book King James Bible, listing "The Books of the Old Testament", "The Books called Apocrypha", and "The Books of the New Testament"
The Bible is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophecies, among other genres. The collection of materials that are accepted as part of the Bible by a particular religious tradition or community is called a biblical canon. Believers in the Bible generally consider it to be a product of divine inspiration, but the way they understand what that means and interpret the text varies.
The Gutenberg Bible, published in the mid-15th century by Johannes Gutenberg, is the first published Bible.
The Book of Genesis in a c. 1300 Hebrew Bible
Paul the Apostle depicted in Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, a c. 1619 portrait by Valentin de Boulogne
The Rylands fragment P52 verso is the oldest existing fragment of New Testament papyrus, including phrases from the 18th chapter of the Gospel of John.
