Bardesanes, Book of the Laws of Countries in the early church

Texts outside the 66 books of the Protestant Bible. A bracket shows which other churches include a book in their Old Testament canon: RC = Roman Catholic, EO = Eastern Orthodox, ETH = Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo.

Syriac Christian teacher of Edessa (154–222); work known in a dialogue by his pupil, partly preserved in Greek in Eusebius; authorship of the dialogue debated; SBL abbreviation to be checked.

50 passages cite it, in date order.