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Bible Question: From the time all the originat texts were found how was cannon determined and who acctually put it all together, second question Jehovah in ot is He or does that name 3 persons |
Bible Answer: Hello Joshua, Deut 4:2 says, ""You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you." Your question is a little misleading from the outset. You ask, "From the time all the original texts were found...." Yet actually, the canon was not found but formed over the entire history of the OT. Beginning with the Ten Commandments, These form the beginning of the canon, as the earliest recorded words that were actually written by the finger of God. (Exo 31:18) these were the terms of God's covenant with his people and were placed into the Ark of the Covenant. (Deu 10:5) The LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud (Deu 31:15). And this is one of the ways that the collection of God's words grew and Moses himself wrote additional words as God gave to him to be placed beside the Ark of the Covenant. (Deu 31:24-26) After the death of Moses, Joshua added to he collection of the Words that were inspired by God yet recorded by the hand of man, see Josh 24:26a: "And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God" This is quite profound, since the command from God was, "You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you..." (Deu 4:2) Therefore, Joshua must have been convinced that God himself had authorized all the words he wrote, because he never would have put himself in such a predicament to disobey His command by choice. Following the establishment of the nation of Israel, God continued to speak, mostly through prophets, who revealed additional words from God, see 1 Sam 10:25a: "Then Samuel told the people the ordinances of the kingdom, and wrote them in the book and placed it before the LORD." "Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Samuel the seer, in the chronicles of Nathan the prophet and in the chronicles of Gad the seer," (1Chr 29:29) "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book." (Jer 30:2) And the content of the OT continued to expand through the years until Malachi, around 435 B.C. There is further history of the Jews recorded in other literature such as the book of Maccabees (aprox 100 B.C.), but these writings are not considered to be inspired by God. The author of Macc. wrote in 4:45-46, "So they tore down the altar and stored the stones in a convenient place on the temple hill until ther should come a prophet to tell what to do with them." Josephus (born aprox 37 A.D.), being the greatest Jewish historian of the first century, knew of the writings called the Apocrypha (from the Greek word meaning 'hidden), but along with his contemporaries, he did not consider these 15 books of Jewish literature to be worthy of inclusion with the earlier recorded books. Rabbinic literature espouses similar convictions and it is generally accepted that no more of God's Words were added to Scripture after around 435 B.C. Jesus and His disciples, as well as the Jewish leaders, were apparently in agreement that additions to the canon had ended after the time of Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Haggai, and Malachi. Jesus and NT authors are said to have quoted from the OT 295 times but not once are the Apocrypha or any other literature cited as having divine authority. Therefore they were never accepted by the Jews as Scripture. Lord Bless, keliy |