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Formation of Hebrew Bible

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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Formation of
the Hebrew Bible & the Christian OT

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Canon: Authoritative Books

Collection of books that are the "bottom line"
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Really Important

Lots of conspiracy theories out there...
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Hard to Walk the Narrow Way

Easy to fall into error on either side
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Holy Parachute View

Straight from God's hands to ours
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Canon Decided by a Few

Powerful people who suppress other views
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Multi-layered

FORMATION TOOK A LONG TIME
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Complex Process

How the Holy Spirit inspired...
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Confident that ...

  • Likely core established 400-200 BC
  • In addition to core, other popular books even pastthe time of Jesus were included but not thought to be equal to the core books
  • Hebrew OT is different than Greek OT on this matter - Greek includes disputed books - Apocrypha
  • RC and Orthodox use Greek Canon, Protestants use Hebrew
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Greek OT 3rd Cent. BC

Alexandria - Northern Egypt
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Apocrypha

  • 1 Esdras 2 Esdras Tobit Judith Additions to Esther Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus Baruch Epistle of Jeremiah Song of the Three Children Story of Susanna Bel and the Dragon Prayer of Manasseh 1 Maccabees 2 Maccabees
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