Canon of Scriptures?

Gideon4God · #1 20th March 2003, 11:09 PM

Can someone help me out, I trying to nail down the different canons of Holy Scripture (O.T.) as held by the different Churches.  Eastern Orthodox, Coptic, Protestant, etc.

Thankx

dignitized · #2 23rd March 2003, 01:58 AM

I hope this helps
http://biblia.com/christ/scriptures....tant%20Bibles:

Edouard · #3 23rd March 2003, 02:17 AM

Scripture:

You have two main types of scripture that were disputed in the early church. The council of Trent would be one session I would refer you to for more information.

Canon, which is what protestant and non-denominational churches use.
This was developed from the Septugiant ( Hebrew translated into greek then into english ). In reference to the Old Testament of course.

Apocrypha literature are books that may hold up to historical fact, but were not considered "inspired writings by God or the Holy Spirit." This type of reference material you would find in a Catholic bible and most likely orthodox as well. Books like Macabee's and I & II Esdras are just two examples. ( don't remember all of them off the top of my head.)

May your search for knowledge bring you closer to Him in its entirety

Charis et Erienne

Edouard

Polycarp1 · #4 10th September 2003, 12:58 AM

I’m resurrecting this thread to post the Anglican standard, and to ask a question. First, from the Articles of Religion (in sumptuous old King James language!

) [Bracketed material is my own added clarifications.]…

VI. Of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation.

Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those canonical Books of the Old and New Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church.

Of the Names and Number of the Canonical Books
Genesis,
Exodus,
Leviticus,
Numbers,
Deuteronomy,
Joshua,
Judges,
Ruth,
The First Book of Samuel,
The Second Book of Samuel,
The First Book of Kings,
The Second Book of Kings,
The First Book of Chronicles,
The Second Book of Chronicles,
The First Book of Esdras [Ezra],
The Second Book of Esdras [Nehemiah],
The Book of Esther,
The Book of Job,
The Psalms,
The Proverbs,
Ecclesiastes or Preacher,
Cantica, or Songs of Solomon,
Four Prophets the greater,
Twelve Prophets the less.

And the other Books (as Hierome [Jerome] saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine; such are these following:

The Third Book of Esdras [I Esdras],
The Fourth Book of Esdras [II Esdras],
The Book of Tobias,
The Book of Judith,
The rest of the Book of Esther,
The Book of Wisdom [AKA Wisdom of Solomon],
Jesus the Son of Sirach [Ecclesiasticus],
Baruch the Prophet,
The Song of the Three Children,
The Story of Susanna,
Of Bel and the Dragon,
The Prayer of Manasses [King Manasseh],
The First Book of Maccabees,
The Second Book of Maccabees.

All the Books of the New Testament, as they are commonly received, we do receive, and account them Canonical.

I.e., the 15 books in the Septuagint that were rejected from the Palestinian Canon by the Jewish rabbis at Jamnia, and at first omitted from the Vulgate by Jerome, are Scripture, but with a sort of “second class” status.

Okay, there are 39 books in the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) and the Protestant Old Testament, 51 in the Catholic, and 54 in the Orthodox, plus 27 in the New Testament (same for everybody except, of course, the Jews).

My impression is, Evangelical Christians have an extremely strong devotion to the Bible as the Word of God, usually regarded as inerrant and His most precious gift after Jesus Christ and salvation.

But that devotion is to the 66-book Bible that omits the other 15 books listed above after the reference to Jerome.

Why is this? Why are the other 15 books omitted from that love of Scripture? What do you think of them?

This is not asked polemically, in an intent to start an interdenominational fight, but in a sincere effort to understand the perspective from which evangelicals regard the Bible, and why the choice to use the restricted canon is important to them.

silent water · #5 10th September 2003, 01:27 AM

http://www.bible-researcher.com/canon.html

Reader Nilus · #6 10th September 2003, 02:24 AM

The Orthodox Old Testament is not really defined as such, The Old Testament in the Orthodox Church. We would accept the contents of the New Oxford Annotated Bible with Expanded Apocrypha as Scripture.
Jeff the Finn