Biblical canon - Footnotes

The Biblical canon is an exclusive list of books written during the formative period of the Jewish or Christian faiths; the leaders of these communities believed these books to be inspired by God or to express the authoritative history of the relationship between God and his people (although there may have been secondary considerations as well). There are differences between Christians and Jews, as well as between different Christian traditions, over which books meet the standards for canonization. The different criteria for, and the process of, canonization for each community dictates what ...

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Biblical canon - Orthodox Catholic and Protestant. When Christianity began: it had no well-defined set of scriptures outside of the Septuagint1. The New Testament refers to the "Law and Prophets", for example the Gospel of Luke 24:44-45 records Jesus stating: "written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms... the scriptures." The earliest Christian canon is found in the Bryennios manuscript, published by J.-P. Audet in JTS[2] 195 ...

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Biblical canon - Orthodox Catholic and Protestant. When Christianity began: it had no well-defined set of scriptures outside of the Septuagint1. The New Testament refers to the "Law and Prophets", for example the Gospel of Luke 24:44 records Jesus stating: "written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms". The earliest Christian canon is found in the Bryennios manuscript, published by J.-P. Audet in JTS[2] 1950, v1, pp 135-154, da ...

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Biblical canon, Biblical canon - Canonic texts in Jewish and Christian traditions, Biblical canon - Jewish canon, Biblical canon - Samaritan canon, Biblical canon - Christian canon, Biblical canon - Orthodox Catholic and Protestant, Biblical canon - Selected Evangelicals, Biblical canon - Modern interpretation of canonization, Biblical canon - Latter-day Saint Scripture, Biblical canon - Footnotes

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The Jews recognize the twenty-four books of the Hebrew Bible as the Tanakh. Evidence suggests that the process of canonization of the Tanakh occurred between 200 BCE and 200 CE. The first suggestion of a Jewish Canon comes in the 2nd century BCE. The book of 2 Maccabees, itself not a part of the Jewish canon, describes Nehemiah (around 400 BCE) 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 Macc 2:13). The book also suggests that Ezra b ...

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Biblical canon, Biblical canon - Canonic texts in Jewish and Christian traditions, Biblical canon - Jewish canon, Biblical canon - Samaritan canon, Biblical canon - Christian canon, Biblical canon - Orthodox Catholic and Protestant, Biblical canon - Selected Evangelicals, Biblical canon - Modern interpretation of canonization, Biblical canon - Latter-day Saint Scripture, Biblical canon - Footnotes

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The Jews recognize the twenty-four books of the Hebrew Bible as the Tanakh. Evidence suggests that the process of canonization of the Tanakh occurred between 200 BCE and 200 CE. The first suggestion of a Jewish Canon comes in the 2nd century BCE. The book of 2 Maccabees, itself not a part of the Jewish canon, describes Nehemiah (around 400 BCE) 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 Macc 2:13). The book also suggests that Ezra b ...

See also:

Biblical canon, Biblical canon - Canonic texts in Jewish and Christian traditions, Biblical canon - Jewish canon, Biblical canon - Samaritan canon, Biblical canon - Christian canon, Biblical canon - Orthodox Catholic and Protestant, Biblical canon - Modern Evangelicals, Biblical canon - Modern interpretation of canonization, Biblical canon - Latter-day Saint Scripture, Biblical canon - Footnotes

Read more here: » Biblical canon: Encyclopedia II - Biblical canon - Jewish canon