The Old Testament and the New Testament

Catholic historian us bius wrote that josephus enumerates the canonical scriptures forming the old testament, which was limited to only 22 books. These designations and historical boundaries for the old testament can and are used consistently throughout the first few centuri. Even though their old testament lists are not always identical, what we do see consistently is a much smaller canon, far closer to the protestant old testament. Despite these books being written centuries after these biblical characters had died, they were added to later versions of the septuagent. Eusebius would later identify its original boundaries by quoting erenaeus milito of sardis origen in the second century from beginning to end

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