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What is the youngest book in the Hebrew Bible?
The last books to be added to the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) were: Ezra and Nehemiah, Chronicles, Esther, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. All of these were roughly contemporaneous, but the latest recorded date is in Zechariah. Our tradition is that the Hebrew canon was sealed around 340 BCE.
How many books did the Greek cannon add to the canon?
The Greek canon added 8 books to the Old Testament canon. These books, known as the Deuterocanonical books, are not present in the Hebrew Bible but are included in the Greek Septuagint and Catholic Bibles.
Why does the Protestant Bible have the books of the Old Testament in a different order than the Jewish scriptures?
Christians began to use books of the Old Testament as scripture before the Hebrew canon was formalised. By the fourth century, the Christian church began to concern itself about exactly what Old Testament books should be included, and Bishop Melito of Sardis went to Palestine to discover which Hebrew books belonged in the canon. His mission was to determine which books were considered sacred, not to determine in which order to place them. The Catholic Church and some Eastern churches include other books that are not in the Jewish canon.
Who determined what books were to be included in the Old Testament?
It is believed that the first century CE Council of Jamnia first determined exactly what books should be included in the Hebrew Bible. The decision does not appear to have been unanimous and doubts were raised about Ezekiel, Proverbs, Esther, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs. Christians began to use books of the Old Testament as scripture before the Hebrew canon was formalised. By the fourth century, the Christian church began to concern itself about exactly what Old Testament books should be included, and Bishop Melito of Sardis went to Palestine to discover which Hebrew books belonged in the canon. Nevertheless, the Catholic Church and some Eastern churches include other books that are not in the Jewish canon. The Christian canon was not really formalised until the Reformation. Martin Luther established the Protestant canon, after which the Catholic Church formalised its own canon.
What is the name of the Hebrew canon?
There is no such thing as the term "canon" in Hebrew. If you are asking what the Jewish Bible is called, it is the Tanakh (תנך) or Hebrew Bible.
How do you use the word canon in a sentence?
The Christian canon contains 66 books, while Jewish canon contains 24 books.
What is the Hebrew word for canon?
There is no Hebrew word for canon. If you are referring to the Hebrew bible, it is simply called Tanakh (×ª× ×´×š), which is an acroynom for the 3 parts of the Hebrew Bible: Torah, Nevi'im (prophets), and K'tuvim (writings).
How does the placement of the prophetic books at the end of the Hebrew bible anticipant the additions of the gospels to the canon?
The prophetic books were not placed at the end of the Hebrew Bible. This was a rearrangement of the books by the early church. In the original order, used by the Jews, the prophets appear in the center of the Bible. This rearrangement was an effort to give the false impression that more was coming.
Are the Septuagint and Hebrew Scriptures exactly the same?
No. in fact, NO translation is exactly the same as the original.The Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. Translations are never exactly the same as the original.
Is Hanukkah in The Bible?
It isn't in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). It was instituted about 175 years after the canon was sealed. The story of Hanukkah can be found in the Apocrypha (also called the Deuterocanon) in the books of Maccabees I & II, but as mentioned above, these books are not in the Tanakh or Jewish Bible.
What was original Bible called?
AnswerThere is not really an 'original' Bible. The Jews in the last centuries before the time of Jesus began to write scriptures that took on religious or historical significance for them. Gradually the books of law were regarded as special, and were collectively known as the Torah, a term that later came to be used at times for all the books of the Hebrew Bible. Nevertheless, each book was written on a separate scroll and, apart from the Torah, or Pentateuch, there was no consensus as to exactly which books should form a special canon or Bible. The Council of Jamnia is believed to have defined the canon of what could arguably be called the original Bible, the Hebrew Bible, around 90 CE. Of course this does not include the New Testament and so, from a Christian perspective, was incomplete.
Why do Catholics have a different canon of scripture for the Old Testament than Jews and some other Christian groups?
The books used in the TaNaK (the Hebrew Bible) are almost the same ones, which were canonized into the Catholic old testament. The main difference between the two cannons is the order the books are presented. The TaNaK is organized with the Torah, also called the Pentateuch (Genesis through Deuteronomy), as the first five books, because they were the most important and establish the laws of God. The next section is the Nevi'im, which is the all of the teachings from the prophets after Moses. The last section is the Ketuvim, which means "Writings," and contains all the poetic and historical Hebrew Literature. When the Catholics canonized the books of the TaNaK into the Old Testament, the books were rearranged to follow a more of a chronological order of event. The first five books (the Torah), were left unmoved, but everything else was scattered. More or less the Catholic canon moved most of the prophet's books, and put them towards the back of the old testament, without changing their original order. The writings were placed between the Pentateuch and the books of the prophets, and the order of those books was changed. Other small changes included the Catholics dividing the books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles into 2 books each (1 & 2 Samuel/Kings/Chronicles), but the content was unchanged. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah where one book in the TaNaK, but the Catholics separated them into two separate books. Some non Catholic, Christian religions have changed the order of the books even further, and some may have added additional Hebrew texts, not found in the Hebrew Bible.
