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To: malakhi
Don't ever say I don't toss you a soft one every now and then. :-)

Jews aren't off the hook either though. By these standards you guys have 30 or so books of your own that have got to go.

Actually, I don't know what I'm talking about. Do you acknowledge as Scripture anything outside of the Pentatuch (sp)?

v.
51,106 posted on 05/01/2003 3:00:36 PM PDT by ventana (The floor of Hell is paved with the Skulls of Bishops)
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To: ventana
Do you acknowledge as Scripture anything outside of the Pentatuch (sp)?

Yes. The Torah, strictly speaking, is the five books of Moses. But it can also be used generally to refer to the whole Hebrew canon. What Jews recognize as canonical scripture is the same list of books that the Protestants use (which makes sense, since they got it from us). When the canon was "set", they included books which were considered canonical in Judea at the time. One of the criteria was that the books be written in (or predominantly in) Hebrew. This excluded a number of books considered inspired by diaspora Jews. These books passed into the Catholic canon, but not into the Jewish canon.

Jews frequently use the acronym "Tanakh" to refer to the Hebrew scriptures. It reflects the divisions of scripture, which include the Torah, the Prophets (Nevi'im) and the Writings (Ketuvim).

51,143 posted on 05/01/2003 7:18:42 PM PDT by malakhi (Sola Tanakh, baby!)
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