<P> McDonald & Sanders 2002, Appendix D - 2, notes the following list of New Testament books from Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 350) from his Catechetical Lectures 4.36: </P> <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>

All of the new testament except revelation was recognized at the council of