<Dd> "6...such books as the Gospels of Peter, of Thomas, of Matthias, or of any others besides them, and the Acts of Andrew and John and the other apostles...they clearly show themselves to be the fictions of heretics . Wherefore they are not to be placed even among the rejected writings, but are all of them to be cast aside as absurd and impious ." </Dd> <P> The Book of Revelation is counted as both accepted (Kirsopp Lake translation: "Recognized") and disputed, which has caused some confusion over what exactly Eusebius meant by doing so . From other writings of the church fathers, it was disputed with several canon lists rejecting its canonicity . EH 3.3. 5 adds further detail on Paul: "Paul's fourteen epistles are well known and undisputed . It is not indeed right to overlook the fact that some have rejected the Epistle to the Hebrews, saying that it is disputed by the church of Rome, on the ground that it was not written by Paul ." EH 4.29. 6 mentions the Diatessaron: "But their original founder, Tatian, formed a certain combination and collection of the gospels, I know not how, to which he gave the title Diatessaron, and which is still in the hands of some . But they say that he ventured to paraphrase certain words of the apostle Paul, in order to improve their style ." </P> <P> In his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, gave a list of the books that would become the twenty - seven - book NT canon, and he used the word "canonized" (kanonizomena) in regards to them . The first council that accepted the present canon of the New Testament may have been the Synod of Hippo Regius in North Africa (393 AD); the acts of this council, however, are lost . A brief summary of the acts was read at and accepted by the Council of Carthage (397) and the Council of Carthage (419). These councils were under the authority of St. Augustine, who regarded the canon as already closed . </P> <P> Pope Damasus I's Council of Rome in 382, if the Decretum Gelasianum is correctly associated with it, issued a biblical canon identical to that mentioned above, or, if not, the list is at least a 6th - century compilation . Likewise, Damasus' commissioning of the Latin Vulgate edition of the Bible, c. 383, was instrumental in the fixation of the canon in the West . In c. 405, Pope Innocent I sent a list of the sacred books to a Gallic bishop, Exsuperius of Toulouse . Christian scholars assert that, when these bishops and councils spoke on the matter, however, they were not defining something new but instead "were ratifying what had already become the mind of the Church ." </P>

When were the books of the new testement written