From: "Brown Family"

Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian

Subject: Re: History of the Bible - 9





> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 04:36:11 GMT, Willie Martin

> wrote:

>

> > 500 BC: Completion of All Original Hebrew Manuscripts which

> >make Up The 39 Books of the Old Testament.

> >

> Well, this actually occurred much later. The events in the Book of Daniel

> didn't occur until about 100 years later, and the Book of Esther about 150

> years later. It was the Men Of The Great Assembly (Anshei Knesset

HaG'dolah)

> the formalised all 24 books (Not 39. Jewish tradition does not split

Samuel,

> Kings, the Twelve Prophets (Hosea, Joel, Amos, etc), Ezra-Nehemiah and

> Chronicles in to two) around 300 BCE.

>

> > 200 BC: Completion of the Septuagint Greek Manuscripts

> >which contain The 39 Old Testament Books AND 14 Apocrypha

> >Books.

>

> That might have been a bit difficult since the events in the Apocrypha

> hadn't occurred. The first Jewish Septuagint, which later became the basis

> for Christian teachings on the OT, contained just the first Five Books of

> Moses - that's all Ptolemy was after. Additions were later added by Jewish

> and Christian scholars and many errors were included. No original and

> reliable versions of the Septuagint are known to exist.

>

> Septuagint seems to have become a generic name for all translations of

> Hebrew in to Greek up until the composition of the NT was formalised in

> around 400 CE.



> Les Brown