Much has changed, but no doctrine has changed. This is why the Catholic Church still happily reads form every book in the Bible and doesn’t pit one against the other.
The “she” in Genesis 3:15 is not like Luther’s “allein”. St. Jerome had to make a gender distinction that does not exist in Hebrew. A modern translator who translates “he will crush your head” makes the same distinction equally arbitrarily.
The Jewish canon has not been settled till Jamnia, AD 90 or so. This was AFTER the rabbis booted the Christians out of their synagogues. Call them what you will prior to that, after Jamnia they werre in no way “Church”.
I hear often a certain caution against the parables coming from Protestant “hermeneutucs”, but off the top of my head cannot be sure if it started with Luther. If not, good for him. Consider this issue withdrawn, for now.
“Much has changed, but no doctrine has changed. This is why the Catholic Church still happily reads form every book in the Bible and doesn’t pit one against the other.”
No, I suppose not. You just pit every book of the Bible against your oral tradition.
“The “she” in Genesis 3:15 is not like Luther’s “allein”. St. Jerome had to make a gender distinction that does not exist in Hebrew. A modern translator who translates “he will crush your head” makes the same distinction equally arbitrarily.”
Huh? Where did you learn Hebrew?
“The Jewish canon has not been settled till Jamnia, AD 90 or so. This was AFTER the rabbis booted the Christians out of their synagogues. Call them what you will prior to that, after Jamnia they werre in no way “Church”.
The deuterocanonical books were not included in the temple archive as canonical Scripture, and this before the time of Christ. Again, read 1 & 2 Maccabees. Also, take note that Christ never quotes from them as Scripture, nor do the Apostles.
I will leave it there.
Goodnight.