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To: kosta50; jo kus; Forest Keeper; kawaii; 1000 silverlings; DungeonMaster; HarleyD; Dr. Eckleburg; ...

"The author of that spendid article forgot that Greek-speaking Jews"

No, he didn't forget. See, the Jews had their own magesteriam, called the Sanhedren, and they decide what is in their canon, not scriveners in Egypt. As Josephesus reported, the Apocrypha didn't make it and no self respecting religious Jew would add it to the canon. Kind of like when the Council of Trent decided after 1400 years to override the doubts of all that went before and add it.


10,423 posted on 02/14/2007 8:12:28 PM PST by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan; jo kus; Forest Keeper; kawaii; 1000 silverlings; DungeonMaster; HarleyD; ...
no self respecting religious Jew would add it to the canon

I guess the Apostles were not self-respecting Jews then.

How would you know what the Jewish "magistrerium" was considering that the priests who were in charge of the Temple were Sadducees who died out? We only have morphed Pharisees who re-set the canon in Jamnia.

One of the Jamnia-invented requirements for acceptance of any text was that it be written in Hebrew. For three hundred years many Jews used the Septuagint and not one complaint was heard about it.

Their 'beef' was with Christianity being a 'law-breaking' sect which is actually correct. One of the descriptions of +James by Josephus, the 'brother of the so-called Messiah" is said to have been executed as a 'lawbreaker.'

10,433 posted on 02/14/2007 8:55:29 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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