The Jewish canon was the one Christ read from in the temple, the majority of jewish communities used the canon that had been marked as inspired by the prophet Nehemiah ( ..that canon had been set from the days of Nehemiah... )but never officially until there was religious tension between Christianity and Judaism ... just was there was no closed Christian canon before Trent.
The Jews reject the books because they are not inspired, They contain errors and inconsistencies and contradictions even within the same book ...
The OT canon belongs to the Jews, God has never removed it from their care and authority ..Rome had no right to add uninspired books to their canon
“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 c. 400 BC, the Prophets c. 200 BC, and the Writings c. AD 100[5] perhaps at a hypothetical Council of Jamnia—however this position is increasingly criticised by modern scholars. The book of Deuteronomy includes a prohibition against adding or subtracting (4:2, 12:32) which might apply to the book itself (i.e. a “closed book”, a prohibition against future scribal editing) or to the instruction received by Moses on Mt. Sinai.[6] The book of 2 Maccabees, itself not a part of the Jewish canon, describes Nehemiah (around 400 BC) as having “founded a library and collected books about the kings and prophets, and the writings of David, and letters of kings about votive offerings” (2:13–15). The Book of Nehemiah suggests that the priest-scribe Ezra brought the Torah back from Babylon to Jerusalem and the Second Temple (8–9) around the same time period. Both I and II Maccabees suggest that Judas Maccabeus (around 167 BC) likewise collected sacred books (3:42–50, 2:13–15, 15:6–9), indeed some scholars argue that the Jewish canon was fixed by the Hasmonean dynasty.[7] However, these primary sources do not suggest that the canon was at that time closed; moreover, it is not clear that these sacred books were identical to those that later became part of the canon. “The Men of the Great Assembly”, also known as the Great Synagogue, was, according to Jewish tradition, an assembly of 120 scribes, sages, and prophets, in the period from the end of the Biblical prophets to the time of the development of Rabbinic Judaism, marking a transition from an era of prophets to an era of Rabbis. They lived in a period of about two centuries ending c. 70 CE.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon
What support do you have for this assertion? The Church is legitimate heir to the Old Testament through Jesus Christ and His Apostles. Rome added nothing that was not already among the Jewish canons. The Masoretic Text did not exist in its final form until many centuries after Christ.
Rabbinic Judaism recognizes the twenty-four books of the Masoretic Text
Again, the Masoretic Text does not contain the books of Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Esther. These books are, however, included in the Protestant canon. Do you disown the Protestant canon?
Leftist Wiki is not a good source when it comes to anything controversial. Generally, the understanding of a religion is greatly helped by knowing what it says about itself.