I do not have enough of a knowledge of the history of Jewish Scripture to answer that although I do not believe the claim is accurate.
So I'm pining the only person I can think of who might be able to answer the question adequately.
Can you help out here, ZC?
Those books do NOT include anything Catholic, deutercomical, or apocrypha...And Jesus knew exactly what the OT canon was when he spoke of them in Luke...
Luk_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.
Mat 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
That is the bible history...From Genesis to Zechariah...There is no bible that is recognized from Jesus between Zechariah and Matthew...And as we know, Maccabees was written in that time frame...Can't be scripture...
And by the way, contrary to popular thought, the Jews didn't have a formal canon either until well after Christ died and rose again. So it's not like that "Scripture" existed either before the Church.
I do not have enough of a knowledge of the history of Jewish Scripture to answer that although I do not believe the claim is accurate.
So I'm pining the only person I can think of who might be able to answer the question adequately.
Thank you for the ping, metmom.
FourtySeven, you are incorrect, though your position doesn't surprise me in a modern Roman Catholic.
The Torah (Pentateuch) has never had to be canonized by any human authority since it was dictated to Moses by G-d letter-by-letter and has been in Israel's possession since that time. I'm sure you've been told the Torah is a fraudulent document cooked up in the Second Temple period from the J-E-P-D "strands" but this is irreverent mythology based on nothing but the wishful thinking of those who want the Torah to be fraudulent. The entire "higher critical" theory is nothing but a fugue of the human imagination, but it seems to serve its purpose for its inventors and promoters.
As for the rest of the Hebrew Bible, it was canonized by the Men of the Great Assembly (which consisted of such people as Ezra, Daniel, and Mordecai). They then closed the canon and ruled no further books were to be added. This is why, when the festival of Chanukkah was created, no book about it could be added to the Hebrew Bible.
Please note that I am not a Protestant, do not believe in sola scriptura, and disagree most profoundly with metmom's religious beliefs. But these claims that the Hebrew Bible is fraudulent or mythology and that there was no Hebrew Bible until the chrstian church canonized it is simply too much.
Stick to defending your church's canonization of the "new testament" and leave the TaNa"KH out of it, please. Can you help out here, ZC?