<P> Gospels (4), Acts, James, 1--2 Peter, 1--3 John, Jude, Paul's epistles (14), and Gospel of Thomas listed as pseudepigrapha . </P> <P> The Council of Laodicea, c. 363, was one of the first councils that set out to judge which books were to be read aloud in churches . The decrees issued by the thirty or so clerics attending were called canons . Canon 59 decreed that only canonical books should be read, but no list was appended in the Latin and Syriac manuscripts recording the decrees . The list of canonical books, Canon 60, sometimes attributed to the Council of Laodicea is a later addition according to most scholars and has a 22 - book OT and 26 - book NT (excludes Revelation). </P> <P> In his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, gave a list of exactly the same books as what would become the 27 - book NT canon, and he used the word "canonized" (kanonizomena) in regards to them . </P> <P> The Cheltenham List, c. 365--90, is a Latin list discovered by the German classical scholar Theodor Mommsen (published 1886) in a 10th - century manuscript (chiefly patristic) belonging to the library of Thomas Phillips at Cheltenham, England . The list probably originated in North Africa soon after the middle of the 4th century . </P>

Who is credited with the first list of all 27 of the current list of canonical new testament texts