Canon of the Bible.

Compiled by Eve.

 

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anon of the Hebrew Bible was recognized at the synod of Yavneh ( Jamnia ), recognized! not created, for the canon is the work of the Holy Spirit. A word more on the subject of the Septuagint. It is not canonical. Besides the deuterocanonical books, it contains other apocrypha, moreover some books, especially prophetic ones, are shorter, some longer than in BH, most of them are paraphrases of the Hebrew text. In a word, it is not a literal translation of BH into Greek, it is worth bearing that in mind.

here an excerpt from my work that was once posted in full on the Blog.
I would like to add that my teachers at Berea Bible School, including Dariusz Czyszczoń, graded it excellent, so I can conclude that what I wrote is correct:

The Bible is a special library containing many books within it. This library is made up of two collections: The Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament contains 39 books originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, while the New Testament contains 27 books written in Koine Greek, making a total of 66 canonical (i.e. recognized) books. Written down over a period of 1550 years, by more than 40 authors, in three languages, on three continents. These texts, written under the inspiration of God, are sacred to the great monotheistic religions: Judaism and Christianity, and other religious groups. They are also the most important literary work the world has ever seen.
It should be noted at this point that the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches, following the Septuagint ( LXX ), ( Septuagint, is a translation of the Bible from Hebrew into Greek, written between 250 and 100 BC, and made by Jewish scholars in Alexandria. This translation, done for the Library of Alexandria, included all available Jewish writings, not just those considered inspired. ) expanded the Canon of Scripture to include certain Old Testament apocrypha, calling them the deuterocanonical books. Thus, the Old Testament in their translations contains 46/47 books for the C.R., 49 books for the Orthodox.
The canon recognized by the authorities of the Jewish world at the Council of Jamnia ( Yavneh ), which took place around 90 AD, sanctioned the Hebrew Bible as it stands today.
Jerome, who lived at the turn of the 4th/Vth century A.D. Jerome, confirmed the canonicity of the Hebrew Bible, calling the books of the Septuagint that do not appear in the Hebrew canon apocrypha. The tradition established by Jerome was followed by the Protestant world, accepting the Hebrew Bible as the only inspired canon of the Old Testament.

The content of the New Covenant, from the beginning, from the time Jesus' witnesses were filled with the Holy Spirit, was preached by word or document (letter).
Modern scholars agree that this took about 30 years. As with the Tanakh, there came a point when it became necessary to write them down and, in the case of the Epistles, to compile and copy them. Based on a variety of reasons, both historical and archaeological, biblical scholars are mostly of the opinion that both the Gospels and Acts were written as early as the first century AD.
When Emperor Constantine made Christianity a licita ( recognized ) religion in 313, the books of the New Testament began to be distributed throughout the empire.

The New Testament canon, consisting of 27 books, was finally recognized as inspired at synods: in 393 A.D. At Hippo, and in 397 A.D. and 419 A.D. at Carthage, and is today recognized throughout the Christian world. A.D. at Carthage and is still recognized today by the entire Christian world.

While the compilation of the writings of the New Testament took quite a short time, there is a very long history of the compilation of the collection of the Books of the Old Testament, or Old Covenant, which is the Hebrew Bible. The content is the same, only the arrangement of the books is different. For the Scriptures are not chronological.

Tanakh - the Hebrew Bible, whose canon consists of 24/22 books. According to Jewish tradition, Ezra (a priest and scribe) collected and arranged the books of the Hebrew Bible around 450 BC, which still exists in the same form today. Before this happened, biblical traditions began to emerge hundreds of years earlier from oral tradition, hidden in the Hebrew Bible. Several features of the original orality can be found in it. With the development of writing, with the emergence of a writing elite, earlier oral messages were written down. Transcription initiated the creative development of biblical literature. The texts were collated, supplemented and elaborated. As a result, they were able to survive until our time.
The texts or books of the Bible, were not only supplemented. They were also copied. This is already mentioned in the Old Testament (cf. Deut. 17:18).
Over time, the various parts of the Old Testament became closed wholes that were no longer further expanded literarily. This stage, called canonization, gave the text its final form. From this point on, the books were no longer updated but only commented on, with the commentaries not becoming part of the writings. The process of unifying the textual traditions of the books lasted from the second to the seventh century AD. It resulted in the creation of the co-vocalic text of the later Masoretic Text. Only at the beginning of the second century AD did the Jewish community use one set of sacred books, which is confirmed in the writings of Josephus Flavius.
This, in very brief, is the story of the creation of the Bible, which, with the canonization of the texts, has become immutable in its content."

 

Eve's elaboration. Thank you in the name of Jesus.