input: A biblical canon or canon of scripture is a set of texts (or "books") which a particular religious community regards as authoritative scripture. The English word "canon" comes from the Greek , meaning "rule" or "measuring stick". Christians became the first to use the term in reference to scripture, but Eugene Ulrich regards the idea as Jewish.

Most of the canons listed below are considered "closed" (i.e., books cannot be added or removed), reflecting a belief that public revelation has ended and thus some person or persons can gather approved inspired texts into a complete and authoritative canon, which scholar Bruce Metzger defines as "an authoritative collection of books". In contrast, an "open canon", which permits the addition of books through the process of continuous revelation, Metzger defines as "a collection of authoritative books".

These canons have developed through debate (canonology) and agreement on the part of the religious authorities of their respective faiths and denominations. Believers consider canonical books as inspired by God or as expressive of the authoritative history of the relationship between God and his people. Some books such as the Jewish-Christian gospels, have been excluded from various canons altogether, but many disputed booksconsidered non-canonical or even apocryphal by someare considered to be Biblical apocrypha or Deuterocanonical or fully canonical by others. Differences exist between the Jewish Tanakh and Christian biblical canons, although the Jewish Tanakh did form the basis for the Christian Old Testament, and between the canons of different Christian denominations. The differing criteria and processes of canonization dictate what the various communities regard as inspired scripture. In some cases where varying strata of scriptural inspiration have accumulated, it becomes prudent to discuss texts that only have an elevated status within a particular tradition. This becomes even more complex when considering the open canons of the various Latter Day Saint sectswhich one may view as extensions of Christianity (and thus of Judaism)and the scriptural revelations purportedly given to several leaders over the years within that movement. 1. Where does the English word Canon come from?
2. What have the caonons developed through?
3. How does Bruce Metzger define an Authoritive canon?
4. What does an open cannon permit?
5. How does Metzger define an open canon?
6. Are there differences in the Jewish Tanakh and Christian biblical canons?
7. What is the definition of the greek word canon comes from?
8. Where does it become prudent to discuss texts that only have an elevated status within a particular tradition?
9. Did the Jewish Tanakh for the basis for the Christian Old Testament?
10. What group became the first to use the term? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. the Greek
2. debate
3. an authoritative collection of books
4. the addition of books
5. a collection of authoritative books
6. yes
7. rule
8. cases where varying strata of scriptural inspiration have accumulated
9. yes
10. Christians

input: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A convicted rapist seeking to prove his innocence with a new DNA test lost his appeal Thursday at the Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court case involved a crime in which post-conviction DNA testing was available.

The justices ruled 5-4 that inmates cannot use a federal civil rights law to press for advanced DNA testing that was unavailable at the time of the crime.

Forty-four states and the federal government have laws allowing post-conviction access to biological evidence for such testing, but that number does not include Alaska, where William Osborne was sentenced 15 years ago for a vicious attack on an Anchorage woman.

"He has no constitutional right to obtain post-conviction access to the state's evidence for DNA testing," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. He was supported by his conservative colleagues Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said, "There is no reason to deny access to the evidence and there are many reasons to provide it, not the least of which is a fundamental concern in ensuring that justice has been done in this case." Justices David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer backed his conclusions.

Osborne's trial attorney in Anchorage made a strategic decision 16 years ago to forgo more sophisticated DNA testing of the evidence in the criminal assault case, believing it might end up working against her client. Several years later, the Alaska inmate sought access to the state's biological evidence to have a state-of-the-art DNA test done. 1. Where was someone in jail?
2. He was there for what?
3. How long ago?
4. What was his name?
5. What doesn't the state allow?
6. Is that true for the whole country?
7. Where is it allowed?
8. Where was he trying to have it changed?
9. What institution was he trying to get to change it?
10. Did they?
11. By what margin?
12. Who is someone that said it shouldn't be changed?
13. What's his title?
14. Who is someone who thought it should be changed? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Alaska
2. rape
3. 15 years ago
4. William Osborne
5. post conviction access to biological evidence
6. no
7. Forty-four states and the federal government
8. in Anchorage
9. Supreme Court.
10. no
11. 5-4
12. John Roberts
13. Chief Justice
14. Paul Stevens

input: EL PASO, Texas (CNN) -- The cell phone rang as Jorge Aguirre walked to a friend's funeral in Juarez, Mexico, last November -- a funeral for a fellow journalist who, Aguirre says, was assassinated for the critical stories he wrote.

Mexican federal police recently began patrolling Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas.

When he answered the phone, Aguirre heard a profanity-laced threat. "They told me I was next," Aguirre told CNN. "I thought they were going to kill me right there."

Aguirre immediately gathered up his family and darted across the border into El Paso, Texas. He hasn't returned to Juarez since that day.

Aguirre is seeking asylum in the United States, and he's part of a growing trend among Mexican citizens looking to escape the violence and corruption of their homeland. Watch journalists met with death threats "

According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency that falls under the Department of Homeland Security, the number of Mexican nationals requesting asylum in the United States based on "credible fear" has gone up every year since 2003, even as the overall number of "credible fear" asylum cases remains steady.

In 2003, the USCIS reported 54 asylum cases from Mexican citizens. In 2008, that number reached 312. But asylum requests based on fear of violence aren't easy cases to make. Last year, the United States approved less than half of those cases.

"Whether they're fleeing extortionists or potential kidnappers or they're leaving because of the drug cartels, it tells you there are definitely problems in Mexico right now," said El Paso Mayor John Cook. 1. Who received a threat?
2. Was the threat in person?
3. How was it made?
4. Who was he telling about it?
5. What did he think was going to happen to him?
6. Where did he go?
7. Did he go alone?
8. With whom?
9. Where was he going when he got the threat by phone?
10. What was his friend's job?
11. Why was he killed?
12. Where was the funeral?
13. In 2003 how many asylum cases were there?
14. In 2008?
15. How many were approved?
16. Who is John Cook?
17. What is one reason they seek asylum?
18. And another? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Jorge Aguirre
2. no
3. by phone
4. CNN
5. he was going to be killed
6. El Paso, Texas
7. no
8. his family
9. a friend's funeral
10. journalist
11. he wrote critical stories
12. Juarez, Mexico,
13. 54
14. 312
15. less than half of those cases
16. mayor of El Paso
17. to escape violence
18. to escape corruption