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'''III.'''

'''III.'''

It is important to see how criteria of "levels of inspiration" were understood by the Jewish sages at the time of Jamnia in the first centruy and shortly after. Some of the books that almost didn't make it into the canon of Scriptures: Esther - no name of God, Ecclesiastes - too philosphically pessimistic, Song of Songs- too erotic (needed to be spiritualized). One of them that almost did make it - Ecclesiasticus (ben Sirach)- probably would have been included if they had had it in its original Hebrew as did the "Dead Sea scrolls community" from the desert around Qumran. It is also instructive to note how canon defining in Judaism actually did take place. The Council of Jamnia Canon (which the Protestant Reformers went to, thus excluding the Apocrypha} considered those books only which they had before them in the Hebrew language as worthy for consideration (As it turned out, some of the non Hebrew books before their consideration, were originally Hebrew, as attested by the Dead Sea compilations. But they didn't know that.)

It is important to see how criteria of "levels of inspiration" were understood by the Jewish sages at the time of Jamnia in the first centruy and shortly after. Some of the books that almost didn't make it into the canon of Scriptures: Esther - no name of God, Ecclesiastes - too philosphically pessimistic, Song of Songs- too erotic (needed to be spiritualized). One of them that almost did make it - Ecclesiasticus (ben Sirach)- probably would have been included if they had had it in its original Hebrew as did the "Dead Sea scrolls community" from the desert around Qumran. It is also instructive to note how canon defining in Judaism actually did take place. The Council of Jamnia Canon (which the Protestant Reformers went to, thus excluding the Apocrypha} considered those books only which they had before them in the Hebrew language as worthy for consideration (As it turned out, some of the non Hebrew books before their consideration, were originally Hebrew, as attested by the Dead Sea compilations. But they didn't know that.)

'''IV. The Dynamics of the Usual Conflict'''

'''IV. The Dynamics of the Usual Conflict'''