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The emergence of the New Testament as a uniquely authoritative body of texts has always constituted an important strand in the early history of the Christian Church. David Dungan contends that there was no canon of sacred Scripture before the fourth century because 'so far no official or ecclesiastical body had met to determine which writings to accept and which to reject in Holy Scripture' (p. 30). He holds that such a canon (by which he means a closed and defined list) was established as a result of the 'strategy in defence of the Catholic Scriptures' mounted by Eusebius of Caesarea and that 'Constantine reshaped Catholic Christianity and its Scriptures'. Such a thesis sounds radical and innovatory, and Dungan indeed presents it as such. The thesis is in fact neither original nor as radical as it seems in view of its extremely narrow definition of what constitutes a canon. Somewhat surprisingly, Dungan never discusses the fragmentary text published by L. A. Muratori in 1740, commonly known as 'the Muratorian fragment' and sometimes called 'the Muratorian canon', which is normally dated