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To: Boogieman
"So, why do you argue to change the Hebrew canon that Rome did not make?"

Please be aware that it was not "Rome" that changed the Old Testament Canon, but the Jews. In the first century there was not just one "Jewish Canon", but at least four. There was the Sadducetic canon which taught that only the Torah, the first five Books, were Scripture, the Pharisaic, the one used in the Protestant Bible, that taught that the entire Hebrew Tanakh was Scripture, the Essene canon and the Hellenistic canon, used my the vast majority of first century Jews, forms the basis of the Catholic canon. There is some evidence that each of the many qahals had a particular derivative canon.

Peace be with you.

348 posted on 04/06/2013 8:06:43 AM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law; JCBreckenridge

“Please be aware that it was not “Rome” that changed the Old Testament Canon, but the Jews. In the first century there was not just one “Jewish Canon”, but at least four.”

I see. So when Protestants don’t keep up with the canon pronounced at Trent, we are accusing of “changing” the canon, but when Rome doesn’t keep up with the most recent canon pronounced by the Jewish authorities, that is “okey-dokey”.


349 posted on 04/06/2013 8:41:34 AM PDT by Boogieman
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