Lost Books of the Bible · The Complete Story of Why They Were Left Out · 3 Hour Sleep Story

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Hear every new episode early, weeks before it airs, as a Lamplighter: gildenmyth.comThe voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.No surviving record of Nicaea gives a vote selecting the New Testament. Later regional councils did record decisions about scripture. Nicaea met in 325 at the emperor's invitation. Its surviving records concern doctrine and church order, not a decision selecting the biblical books. The longer history involved churches using books, writers debating authorship and teaching, bishops making lists and regional councils recording decisions. Public reading mattered alongside authority and truth. Tonight, the whole of it, gently, and with every name given back to the person who carried it. Eusebius of Caesarea surveying acknowledged, disputed and rejected writings while reporting differing judgments. A Latin text published in Milan in 1740, copied into a larger codex and often called the earliest surviving New Testament list, though its date is disputed. Athanasius's Easter letter of 367, naming the familiar twenty seven books and distinguishing them from other books recommended for instruction. The regional councils of Hippo in 393 and Carthage in 397, with Augustine attending Hippo as a priest. And the questions of authorship, reception, teaching and truth that shaped these decisions. Then the part nobody expects, which is the comfort in it: the books that nearly did not make it, the broad agreements and the disagreements that remained. Then English Bibles printed with an Apocrypha section, and the British and Foreign Bible Society's decision in 1826 to stop funding editions with it. Then the Ethiopian tradition that preserved Enoch and Jubilees as scripture. A three hour sleep story, the twelfth and last night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Told from the letters and lists themselves, with an imagined Ethiopian copyist setting the finished book beside the one he copied it from. Source claims were checked against the primary texts and scholarship reviewed for this episode. An authentic book is not the same as a true event. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:16 There Was No Room 14:53 The Man Who Sorted Books Into Piles 23:07 The List in the Cupboard in Milan 30:07 The Letter That Went Out at Easter 37:04 Two Meetings in North Africa 44:18 What They Were Actually Asking 52:38 The Books That Nearly Did Not Make It 58:41 The Bible That Was Bigger 1:07:49 The Church That Kept Everything 1:13:36 What the Left Out Books Are Actually Like 1:23:13 The People Who Made the List 1:31:21 Goodnight. And the Shelf 1:38:29 Calm music to drift off The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration, a slow music bed, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night. This is the last night of Season Six, The Lost Books, twelve nights that ran from October 25. The whole season is on the channel now, and it is on the podcast, free, in the same order. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com

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