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Jewish Compilation of the Old Testament Canon

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 29, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 20.

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Jewish Compilation of the Old Testament Canon

By A. Farley

A. FARLEY: The Jews are entitled to credit respecting the compilation of the books which constitute their Scriptures. They assign to Ezra the work of collecting and arranging them down to his day, and afterward to “the great synagogue.” We know of no authority for the statements of the man you refer to, that they were twice destroyed and rewritten. “The complete canon of the New Testament, as commonly received at present, was ratified at the third Council of Carthage, A. D. 391, and from that time was accepted throughout the Latin church.” Smith's Bible Dictionary, art., Canon of Scripture.