Tag: Tanakh

Please note a correction to the post, “When did the Bible become the Bible? — Part #2 (The Old Testament)” (19 Dec 2018). In that post I stated that, During the 2nd century B.C. the Jewish books were translated en masse for the first time. The story goes that this was at the request of

[Part 1. New Testament] [Part 2. Old Testament] A friend once asked me, “When did the Bible become the Bible?” That is not a trivial question to answer, and I told him so at the time. There is not one single point in time at which you can say, “That’s when the Bible became the

I have discovered and corrected an erratum on my previous post, “Why the difference between the Old Testament canon in different Christian traditions?” (3 Sep 2018) The article in question can be found here. The paragraph in question read: It would appear that Orthodox Judaism accepted as divinely inspired Scripture only books which had been

[Comparison table] [Why the difference?] In our previous post (29 August), we compared the canon of the Old Testament books in four different Christian traditions: the Protestant Old Testament, the Roman Catholic, the Eastern Orthodox, and the Slavonic Bible used by the Russian Orthodox Church. You can find our comparison of the different Old Testament