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To: Mr Rogers; kosta50

I thought the Jews didn’t have anything like an actual canon (except for the Sadduccees accepting only the Torah) untl Yavneh (the form I prefer to Jamnia).


5,069 posted on 09/15/2010 10:16:07 AM PDT by maryz
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“Rabbinic Judaism recognizes the twenty-four books of the Masoretic Text, commonly called the Tanakh or “Hebrew Bible”. Evidence suggests that the process of canonization occurred between 200 BC and AD 200, indeed a popular position is that the Torah was canonized circa 400 BC, the Prophets circa 200 BC, and the Writings circa AD 100[5] perhaps at a hypothetical Council of Jamnia—however this position is increasingly criticised by modern scholars.”

That is Wiki, but I could dig out other sources for the same thing if I wanted to spend the time.


5,079 posted on 09/15/2010 10:32:27 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (When the ass brays, don't reply...)
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To: maryz
I thought the Jews didn’t have anything like an actual canon (except for the Sadduccees accepting only the Torah) untl Yavneh (the form I prefer to Jamnia).

There was a canon from the time of Nehemiah, this canon is discussed in maccabees 2

Jesus himself divided the canon before Jamnia

Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Luke 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

5,139 posted on 09/15/2010 12:33:35 PM PDT by RnMomof7 (Jhn 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word.)
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