Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: CynicalBear
The Jewish Canon was ordered in about 90 AD, at a Rabbinical school in Jamnia. They were not Christians and denied the divinity of Christ and the New Testament.

The LXX Septuagint canon predates it by about 350 years and is still used by Ethiopian Jews to this day.

4,074 posted on 12/30/2014 11:49:01 AM PST by verga
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4055 | View Replies ]


To: verga; CynicalBear
The Jewish Canon was ordered in about 90 AD, at a Rabbinical school in Jamnia. They were not Christians and denied the divinity of Christ and the New Testament. The LXX Septuagint canon predates it by about 350 years and is still used by Ethiopian Jews to this day.

The Septuagint wasn't a "canon", it was a collection of books translated into Greek for those Old Testament books that were in Hebrew. Most of the extra books (Apocryphal) were originally written in Greek. It was used mainly by Alexandrian Jews who spoke Greek. If you are presuming that a book's presence in the Septuagint meant it was part of the Old Testament canon, then why were only seven of the FIFTEEN extra books added to the RC canon and not all of them?

4,247 posted on 12/30/2014 10:59:55 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4074 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson