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@Viridian's post is correct. I'd like to corroborate it.
The First Council of Nicaea occurred in 325 CE. The Great Schism--a major event in Christian history--did not occur until 1054 CE. It was the schism that created the Roman Catholic Church. The one Church split into the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. For this reason it is (again) anachronistic to associate the First Council of Nicaea with the Catholic Church. This isn't esoteric knowledge, it's fundamental Christian history. No one that refers to themselves as a "scholar" and expects to be taken seriously can be oblivious to an event as significant as the Schism.
No Christian scripture was found in any of the Qumran caves. The list in the relevant Wikipedia article is reliable; all of the citations refer to the Israel Museum and the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library. Both of these organisations have physical access to the manuscripts, in fact AFAIK they are the only organisations that have this access. The latter organisation is a part of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
On the issue of the canon, from Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (2003), a well-regarded book on the matter:
The First Council of Nicaea occurred in 325 CE. The Great Schism--a major event in Christian history--did not occur until 1054 CE. It was the schism that created the Roman Catholic Church. The one Church split into the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. For this reason it is (again) anachronistic to associate the First Council of Nicaea with the Catholic Church. This isn't esoteric knowledge, it's fundamental Christian history. No one that refers to themselves as a "scholar" and expects to be taken seriously can be oblivious to an event as significant as the Schism.
No Christian scripture was found in any of the Qumran caves. The list in the relevant Wikipedia article is reliable; all of the citations refer to the Israel Museum and the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library. Both of these organisations have physical access to the manuscripts, in fact AFAIK they are the only organisations that have this access. The latter organisation is a part of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
On the issue of the canon, from Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (2003), a well-regarded book on the matter:
