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1 | Why do they prey for the deads salvation | 1 Cor 3:15 | kalos | 143373 | ||
'The Jewish Canon' 'F. F. Bruce states there is no evidence that the Jews (neither Hebrew nor Greek speaking) ever accepted a wider canon than the twenty-two books of the Hebrew OT. He argues that when the Christian community took over the Greek OT they added the Apocrypha to it and "gave some measure of scriptural status to them also." 'Gleason Archer makes the point that other Jewish translations of the OT did not include the Apocryphal books. The Targums, the Aramaic translation of the OT, did not include them; neither did the earliest versions of the Syriac translation called the Peshitta. Only one Jewish translation, the Greek (Septuagint), and those translations later derived from it (the Italia, the Coptic, Ethiopic, and later Syriac) contained the Apocrypha. 'Even the respected Greek Jewish scholar Philo of Alexandria never quotes from the Apocrypha. One would think that if the Greek Jews had accepted the additional books, they would have used them as part of the canon. Josephus, who used the Septuagint and made references to 1 Esdras and 1 Maccabees writing about 90 A.D. states that the canon was closed in the time of Artaxerxes I whose reign ended in 423 B.C. It is also important to note that Aquila's Greek version of the OT made about 128 A.D., which was adopted by the Alexandrian Jews, did not include the Apocrypha. ____________________ From "The Old Testament Apocrypha Controversy" by Don Closson To read the entire article go to:(http://www.probe.org/docs/apocrypha.html) |
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2 | Why do they prey for the deads salvation | 1 Cor 3:15 | flinkywood | 143420 | ||
Kalos, I understand that Jesus and the apostles quoted widely from the Septuagint and that Paul also refered to aprocryphal books in his letters. This certainly legitmates these book, don't you agree? In light of this, and despite the decidedly non-Christian council of Jamnia proscribing certain books of the Septuagint as non-canonical, despite Jerome's early doubts (as Luther doubted James, Jude and Revelation), why were the apocrypha removed after so many centuries? Colin |
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3 | Why do they prey for the deads salvation | 1 Cor 3:15 | kalos | 143424 | ||
"Many Catholics argue that the additional books found in the Apocrypha (Septuagint plus) which they call the deutero-canon, were universally held by the early church to be canonical. This is a considerable overstatement." READ the entire article. Go to:(http://www.probe.org/docs/apocrypha.html) |
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