See the article on the Biblical canon for details as to why this is so.

But this alone would not have qualified the work for the biblical canon.

For a detailed discussion of the differences, see "Biblical canon".

Why such a romantic poem found its way into the biblical canon is something of a mystery.

None of them were accepted into the Biblical canon.

The documentary introduces several books that were excluded from the biblical canon.

Banned from the Bible discusses the ancient books that did not become part of the biblical canon.

Mary's mother is not named in the Biblical canon Gospels.

Others are calling for a new biblical canon.

The Bible is a compilation of many shorter books written at different times and later assembled into the biblical canon.