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To: Slyfox

Yes, the Jewish bible had these books at the time if Christ. They then removed them.


8 posted on 12/20/2014 2:03:08 PM PST by piusv
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To: piusv

To be historically accurate, that would be the Hellenistic Jews in the diaspora, which were the huge majority of Jews, who lived in the Mediterranean areas of the Roman Empire outside of Jerusalem. This would be the LXX version. However, the findings in the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran also indicate that several of the Deuterocanonicals were found in Hebrew translations that are in-line with the Greek LXX translations, which shows that a segment of Hebrew Speaking Jews near Jerusalem also had those books.

In addition, Christ himself celebrated the Festival of Lights personally as recorded in Saint John’s Gospel Chapter 10:22-23 and of course the Festival of Lights or Hanukkah is recorded in 2 Deuterocanonicals of the Catholic OT, 1 Mac 4:36-59 and 2 Mac 10: 1-8. This would provide evidence consistent with Christ himself affirming the Canonicity of those 2 books.


9 posted on 12/20/2014 2:13:07 PM PST by CTrent1564
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