[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

The Septuagint was commissioned by the Jewish priests, and held as valid until the Council of Jamnia-around AD 100.

You see, there were some inconvenient prophecies fulfilled via Christ, so some of those books they considered part of their canon for almost 400 years just had to disappear.

“The Catholic Old Testament follows the Alexandrian canon of the Septuagint,[3] the Old Testament which was translated into Greek around 250 B.C.

The Protestant Reformers follows the Palestinian canon[4] of Scripture (39 books), which was not officially recognized by Jews until around 100 A.D.”

[ricmc2175]

Succinct summary that avoids th pejoratives and “Protestant bashing” of the article. Congrats!!!

[Diego1618]

The Septuagint was commissioned by the Jewish priests, and held as valid until the Council of Jamnia-around AD 100.

A small correction....if you please?

The Septuagint was commissioned by Ptolemy and seventy "Alexandrian" Jews took on the task of translating Hebrew to Greek. This Hellenistic influence on Judaism was not divinely inspired and even the Apostle Paul was later threatened by it [Acts 9:29].

The "Deuts" were never written in Hebrew and were simply inserted into scripture by these "Grecian Jews". The Council of Jamnia was composed of Hebrew scholars and restored the canon to what had been established by Ezra and Nehemiah after the return from Babylon.

The Apostle Paul....being an Attorney and scholar under the tutorship of Gamaliel [Acts 22:3] would never have used a Greek translation. Gamaliel [Acts 5:34] was the Grandson of the famous Hebrew scholar, Hillel.....and a Pharisee.

When Paul asks Timothy to bring his scrolls and parchments [II Timothy 4:13] they would not have included a copy of the Grecian Septuagint.

[Petronski]

You see, there were some inconvenient prophecies fulfilled via Christ, so some of those books they considered part of their canon for almost 400 years just had to disappear.

You nailed it here!

[delacoert]

So the line in the original article, “except those rejected by the Protestant Reformers in the 1500’s,” is basically nonsense?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***The Protestant Reformers follows the Palestinian canon[4] of Scripture (39 books), which was not officially recognized by Jews until around 100 A.D.”***

Yet the Geneva bible and KJV both origionaly contained the Apocrypha books.
I have read them and find them generaly harmless pious works of fiction running the leingth from rediculous (Tobias) to interesting (Macabees) to good moral lessons in the Wisdom books.

As for accuracy, were the SPARTANS really childen of Abraham as Maccabes and the historian Josephus says they were?

These should be placed along with the Shepherd of Hermas in the pious reading but not cannonical books.