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The book burning at Ephesus is an incident recorded in the Book of Acts in which 
The book burning at Ephesus is an incident recorded in the Book of Acts in which Christian convert
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s at Ephesus, influenced by Saint Paul
Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...
, burned their books of magic. Acts 19 records how "a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver" (v. 19, ESV).
The next verse relates how "the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily". Simon Kistemaker sees these things as closely connected: "The city of Ephesus purged itself of bad literature by burning magic books and became the depository of sacred literature that made up the canon of the New Testament."
See also
*List of book-burning incidents
Notable book burnings – the public burning of books for ideological reasons – have taken place throughout history.
Antiquity
A scroll written by the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah (burnt by King Jehoiakim)
About 600 BC, Jeremiah of Anatho ...
References
{{Acts of the Apostles Ephesus Ephesus Acts of the Apostles