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I first translated J, then E. Then I pursued the editing of J and E together by the redactor known as RJE. Then I translated P, then D (in its stages). Then I translated the remaining small texts (such as Genesis 14). And then I pursued the editing of all of these together by the redactor known as R.
See Ben Witherington III, “Bringing James Out of the Shadows,” and Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, “Where Was James Buried?” in BR 19:03.
None of the New Testament books was originally written to be scripture. In fact, early Christians centered their faith on their oral traditions of the words and deeds of Jesus and the apostles. A precise list of authoritative scripture (the canon) was not formulated until the fourth and fifth centureis C.E. See “Canon” by Harry Y. Gamble in the Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992).
