> What was not noted, unless I missed it, is that the Septuagint or
> Alexandrine Canon was also a Jewish canon, at least in some sense,
> since it was made by Jews for Jews in the Hellenistic diaspora
> several
> centuries before Christ. A century after Christ the Palestinian
> Jewish canon came into existence--unless I am mistaken, as a more
> formal decision of a council of Jewish leaders in Palestine; this is
> the Jewish canon on which the Protestant attitude toward the
> deuterocanonical/apocryphal books is based. Thus both
> Orthodox/Catholic/Anglican and Protestant "Old Testament" canons are
> based on "Jewish" canons, although Jewish canons of different dates,
> locations, language, and degree of formal authority.
>
> Dennis Martin
Quite right, and well pointed out!
Bill.
>
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