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Canon of the Old & New Testaments
#1
Hi All,

First, I am not a member of the COE, so please forgive me if it is inappropriate for me to post here.

I have studied the COE several years ago. One question that I never fully understood was the canon of Scripture in the COE. Could someone please list both the Old and New Testament books that the COE recognizes? I'm pretty sure about the New Testament (the Western canon except for 2 Peter, 2 & 3 John, Jude & Revelation), but I'm uncertain on what the Old Testament canon is.

Thanks!

In Christ,

Daniel
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#2
Hi Daniel,

I don't think the CoE has ever set a canon, per se, on the OT. It uses the Peshitta OT which it inherited from Babylonian Jewry. I do believe the Peshitta OT contains what Protestant Christianity refers to as the "apocryphal" books, but to what extent they are considered inspired, I'm not sure.
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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#3
The Canon of the Peshitta is basically the same as the order of the LXX which does include 15 or more deutercanonical books of the Orthodox Church they are avaiable in English from the Expanded NRSV on the following web site: <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://WWW.onlinebible.org">http://WWW.onlinebible.org</a><!-- w --> and others as well. The last Book is Daniel like in the LXX, includes four books of Maccabees and adds Esdras 4(Ezra)not found in the LXX but in the Vulgate in Latin and in syrian Aramaic in the Peshitta only. Sam
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#4
Here is a list of the Cannonical books in the order of the LXX:
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1Samuel
2Samuel
1Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
1Esdras(Ezra, Apocraphal)
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther W/apocraphal additions
Judith
Tobith
1Maccabees
2 Maccabees
3 Maccabees
4 Maccabees
Psalms including 151
Odes(including The Prayer of Manasseh)
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Songs
Job
Wisdom of Solomon
Sirach
Psalms of Solomon
Hosea
Amos
Micah
Joel
Obadiah
Jonah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Baruch
Lamentions
Letter of Jeremy
Ezekiel
Daniel with Apocraphal additions
The Peshitta is almost the same with the following differnces:
The Book of Job follows Deuteronomy
The Book of Psalms includes Psalms 151-154
The list of the 12 Minor Prophets is inserted between Isaiah and Jeremiah
And certain other writtings like Esdras the Second are present along with Pseudo-Josephus, Assyrian Baruch .
For more info please look it up online in the Internation Student Bible Encyclopedia avaliable free for downloading from <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.crosswire.org">http://www.crosswire.org</a><!-- w -->
Sam
p.s. I hope this is helpful.
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#5
Is there a simmilarty to the LXX and the Peshitta like in Is.7:14 the LXX reads parthenos while the Peshitta reads betholta both meaning virgin along with the NT readings but the Hebrew /Targums read Almah meaning a young woman posiablly a virgin but not necessarily so. The Hebrew word bethula is better suited to meaning virgen like the Peshitta using betholta. Also out of the LXX and the Peshitta the LXX alone agrees completly with the NT, while the Peshitta does most of the time but not always. Sam
p.s. The Hebrew often disagrees withthe NT quotes which agree with the LXX, also the modern Hebrew NT always agrees with the Hebrew and not with the NT or the LXX. By the way the verse of 1John 5:7 is not in the true Peshitta but is translated into Aramaic from the AV in the Hebrew -Aramaic Peshitta NT this it is partly unfaithful to the original Peshitta, while the Serto / Easten or Assyrian Peshitta both lack this added verse as well of the story of the woman in adultry John 7:53-John 8:11 which was added to the Peshitta from the later Byzantine Greek it seems since the early alexanderian Greek texts also leave this out. Sam
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