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Tanakh is canoned in AD90's? How about Falasha's
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Havah Wrote:Tanakh is canoned in AD90's? Many claimed so!
I heard this many times and I don't know if this is really right.
I just thought the Jews of Israel accepted 24 Books many years ago before pronouncing them canonical in AD90.
Can anyone proves this is not very true the Jews threw away Christian deuterocanons from Tanakh in AD90?

Also, could anyone share the list of books of Orit(Beta Israel's Holy Book)?
Nobody can really prove when the canon was finalized. However, there is an audio teaching by Nehmiah Gordon that sets it at the time of Ezra and Nehemiah with some interesting evidence. It used to be here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.karaite-korner.org/audio/">http://www.karaite-korner.org/audio/</a><!-- m -->. Unfortunately it's gone now. I'll email Mr. Gordon and see if I can't get the mp3 file from him, if he still has it. It was pretty good, I thought.

As to the Beta Israel canon, I'm looking in the excellent book "Falasha Anthology" by Wolf Leslau. I highly recommend this book, by the way, and according to Professor Leslau, when he wrote his book they were still unable to make a thorough survey of their literature. Their canon was rather fluid, too. The Torah and the Book of Jubilees held the most sway, but they also had the rest of the TN"K, as well as large portions of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. But I don't think we could really say that they had a canon in the same sense that the rest of the Judeo-Christian world has a canon. It doesn't appear to have been set in stone.They also had a few works of their own that may have been considered canonical, but Professor Leslau was rather unclear and I've been unable to get a clearer picture than he did.

I hope this helps.
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Re: Tanakh is canoned in AD90's? How about Falasha's - by Dawid - 05-14-2009, 01:01 PM
An open letter to Dawid - by Andrew Gabriel Roth - 05-16-2009, 06:19 PM
Re: An open letter to Dawid - by Dawid - 05-17-2009, 02:10 AM

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