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New page: '''Biblical canon''' refers to the concept of an officially recognized list of books which are considered part of the Bible. The first Christians used the Hellenized Alexandrian translati...
'''Biblical canon''' refers to the concept of an officially recognized list of books which are considered part of the Bible. The first Christians used the Hellenized Alexandrian translation known as the [[Septuagint]]. In the [[Council of Jamnia]] of 90 A.D. Jewish rabbis rejected the Septuagint in favor of the Hebrew scriptures, which omitted certain books such as [[Baruch]], [[Judith]], [[Maccabees]], [[Sirach]], and [[Tobit]]. The Eastern Christian churches continue to use the Greek Septuagint today, but the Western Church commissioned a Latin translation from [[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 apocryphal. 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, but Catholics today often face unfounded charges of having deleted books from the Old Testament.
== References ==
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03267a.htm Canon of the Old Testament]
== References ==
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03267a.htm Canon of the Old Testament]