REL 1004 Lecture : Canon Of The Bible Lecture
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Religion 1004 (canon of the bible: canon is the fixed list of books in the bible which jews and. Testament took thousands of years to compose: earliest new testament writings were written about. 200 or so years after the oldest writings in the old. Testament old testament is much older: jewish canon, =the hebrew bible, set by the rabbis in the land of palestine during the 2nd. Christ and the early church: protestant canon, set mainly by martin luther (1500s, in 1519, he set out to translate the hebrew bible into. German: protestant ot is a hybrid, he chose the 39 books of the jewish canon, but chose the order of the 4 sections of the catholic old. Testament: the noab, protestant bible + apocrypha, so, ot = 39 books of jewish canon (hb) in 4 part order of. Catholic ot: apocrypha (deuteron-canonical books, nt = 27 early christian writings in greek, general conclusions:
