What's a Canonical Text?
In Religious Terms, a Canon Is a Standard of Judgment or a Text Containing Those Views, Such as the Bible or the Koran. Sometimes Within Religious Traditions...
In religious terms, a canon is a standard of judgment or a text containing those views, such as the Bible or the Koran. Sometimes within religious traditions, as views evolve or change, some formerly canonical texts become "apocryphal," meaning outside the realm of what's considered representative.
What is meant by canonical text?
tion."1 A canonical text is one whose importance we recognize, al. though in some radical sense we are not able to understand it. Ac. cordingly, we do not simply interpret the text, making its message. available; we also insist that its given form is the only means through.
What makes a book canonical?
The literary canon can be narrowly defined as that which is accepted as authentic (as for example in the context of distinguishing canonical from apocryphal works in relation to the Bible or to Shakespeare), but it is usually defined more broadly as that which is assumed to be 'good' literature, in fact the 'best' ...
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