BI – 151 SQ # 3

How does our English Old Testament relate to the Hebrew (Palestinina) Canon and to the Alexandrian (Greek) Canon?

According to the text book mentions in three steps

(1) Revelation - the revelation of understanding of God and His will to man
(2) Inspiration – the copy under the control of the Holy Spirit the truth which God made known in revelation

(3) Canonization – the recognition of those writings which contain divine revelation and which are divinely

And then H. E. Ryle said that in the Canon of the Old Testament, states there are three stages in the process of canonization

(1) The oral proclamation and arrangement of the content of the Old Testament books
(2) The redaction of these book to their present form
(3) The selection of these books for positions in the national Canon of Holy spirit Scripture
The Bible is authoritative for the Church in matters of faith and classify because it contains divine revelation. Canonization is the recognition of those sacred writings through which God authoritatively speaks.

The Palestine Canon

After the destruction of Jerusalem Jewish scholars moved to Jamnia for the learning of and instruction of the Scriptures. A council of Jewish leaders in Ad 90 (later called the Council of Jamnia) discussed the question of which books to contain in the Old Testament Canon. After some disagreement, the Council officially recognized the 24 book of the Hebrew Old Testament (English Bible 39 books). The Protestant Church, in the sixteenth century, was great influenced by the decision of the Council to recognize the same books as canonical.

The Alexandria Canon

Their collection of religious writings included Greek as well as Hebrew works. They regarded as sacred all the books of the Hebrew Bible, but they also included additional books which are known today as the Apocrypha. The Protestant and Catholic Old Testaments today are there re results of the difference choices of the books in the Hebrew Bible of Palestine and the books of the Greek Bible of Alexandria.

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