Sunday, July 18, 2004

SLOW NEWS DAY. But here's a column in the Florida Sun Sentinel about the biblical canon, by people who call themselves the "God Squad": "Torah is first five books of Bible". It's accurate as far as it goes, but if they're going to explain the arrangement of the biblical books in different canons, they really should also mention the Old Testament Apocrypha or deuterocanonical books, which are part of the Catholic canon. (But note that 2 Esdras and 3-4 Maccabees are not part of this canon even though 2 Edsdras always and the others often are listed in the Apocrypha.) The Orthodox canon is roughly the same as the Catholic canon, but at least sometimes it includes 3 Maccabees. And it gets still more complicated: for example the OT canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church includes 1 Enoch and Jubilees.

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