In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
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Question: The canon of the New Testament is the set of books Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian Bible .

Answer: The Christian Biblical canon is the set of books in the Bible .

Question: The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language , published by Oxford University Press ( OUP ) .

Answer: The Oxford English Dictionary ( or OED ) is a dictionary .

Question: The science of geochronology is the prime tool used in the discipline of chronostratigraphy , which attempts to derive absolute age dates for all fossil assemblages and determine the geologic history of the Earth and extraterrestrial bodies .

Answer:
Geochronology is the main tool used to get absolute age dates for all fossil assemblages , and for the history of the Earth and other bodies .