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The '''Biblical canon''' is the officially recognized list of books which are considered part of the [[Bible]]. The first [[Christian]]s used the Greek translation of the [[Old Testament]] known as the [[Septuagint]] which was written and read by Jews as the Greek language had generally replaced Hebrew. In the [[Council of Jamnia]] of 90 A.D. Jewish rabbis rejected the Septuagint in favor of the Hebrew language text, and omitted certain books such as [[Baruch]], [[Judith]], [[Maccabees]], [[Sirach]], and [[Tobit]]. The [[Orthodox Church|Eastern Christian churches]] continues to use the Greek Septuagint to this day, but the Western Church of [[Catholicism]] commissioned a Latin translation from [[Saint Jerome]] in the early 5th Century which came to be known as the [[Vulgate]]. It remains the official Roman Catholic Bible. Beginning in 390 A.D. Christian councils began settling local disputes about the canon, but the issue was not settled definitively for Catholics until 1546 at the [[Council of Trent]], in reaction to the [[Reformation]]'s rejection of the deuterocanonical works as [[apocrypha]]l. The 1611 [[King James Bible]] included these books but placed them in a separate section, and the [[Church of England]] continued to use the deuterocanonicals in the liturgy until forbidden by the [[Long Parliament]] in 1644. By the 1800's [[Protestant]] Bibles began to omit the deuterocanonical books altogether.
The '''Biblical canon''' is the officially recognized list of books which are considered part of the [[Bible]]. The first [[Christian]]s used the Greek translation of the [[Old Testament]] known as the [[Septuagint]] which was written and read by Jews as the Greek language had generally replaced Hebrew. In the [[Council of Jamnia]] of 90 A.D., Jewish rabbis rejected the Septuagint in favor of the Hebrew language text, and omitted certain books such as [[Baruch]], [[Judith]], [[Maccabees]], [[Sirach]], and [[Tobit]], relatively recent contributions which had become part of Jewish culture.
Orthodox Christians do not usually speak of "the canon of Scripture" but do think of writings as "canonical" the difference being that the canonical writing are judged as being faithful to the dogma of the Church. The Orthodox Church has never defined the Old Testament Canon.
The [[Orthodox Church|Eastern Christian churches]] continues to use the Greek Septuagint to this day, but the Western Church of [[Catholicism]] commissioned a Latin translation from [[Saint Jerome]] in the early 5th Century which came to be known as the [[Vulgate]]. It remains the official Roman Catholic Bible.
The Biblical [[New Testament]] was taking place by the end of the first century when the [[Gospels]] and the letters of [[Paul]] were already being circulated. The heretic [[Marcion]] attempted to remove some books around 140 A.D., showing that there was already a grouping of books that were accepted as authentic. Twenty of the 27 books of the New Testament were accepted early in the history of Christianity, while the other seven that make up the Scriptures had a longer ride. When [[Constantine]] first made Christianity a legal religion in the [[Roman Empire]] in the early 300s, he called together leading Christian from the East and West to iron out the principles of Christianity, including cementing the Canon. Subsequent councils dealt with minor questions of authenticity. For the Catholic Church, they made a formal proclamation [[Council of Trent]], that the Bible they had been using and the books it contained were correct in reaction to the [[Protestant Reformation]]'s rejection of the deuterocanonical works as [[apocrypha]]l. The 1611 [[King James Bible]], put together after the Church of England had broken away from the Catholic Church under [[Henry VIII]] included these books but placed them in a separate section, and the [[Church of England]] continued to use the deuterocanonicals in the liturgy until forbidden by the [[Long Parliament]] in 1644. By the 1800's [[Protestant]] Bibles began to omit the deuterocanonical books altogether.
Orthodox Christians do not usually speak of "the canon of Scripture" but do think of writings as "canonical" the difference being that the canonical writing are judged as being faithful to the dogma of the Church. The Orthodox Church has never defined the Old Testament Canon, but they have been using the same one since the early times of the Church.
== References ==
== References ==
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03267a.htm Canon of the Old Testament]
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03267a.htm Canon of the Old Testament]
[http://www.tektonics.org/lp/ntcanon.html]
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