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Daily Defense Podcast
#277 The Jewish People and the Old Testament Canon - Jimmy Akin
Oct 4, 2023
Jimmy Akin, an expert on the Old Testament Canon, discusses the argument that the Jewish people should be trusted for the Old Testament canon. He highlights the multiple canonical traditions and the use of the Septuagint tradition by early Christians.
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- The Jewish canon of the Old Testament is not uniform, with some Jewish traditions including Deuterocanonical books.
- The Council of Jamnia did not definitively fix the Jewish canon of Scripture and there is no evidence of a decision or list of books being drawn up during that time.
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Multiple Canons Among Jewish People
Not all Jewish people have the same canon, with some including Deuterocanonical books. The canon used by rabbinic Judaism, familiar to Protestants in the 1500s, was borrowed from the Pharisee tradition. However, first-century Christians did not follow the Pharisee canonical tradition.
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