Talk:Hebrew Bible (term)/Archive 3

The Septuagint
The 72 Jewish scribes who are said to have come up with the Septuagint -- the version of Tanakh written by Jews and used by Jews at the time of Christ -- translated a version of Tanakh that included the accepted-by-all Tanakh Books and also included the deuterocanonical Books. The deuteros were accepted and used by Hellenistic Jews, were referenced by Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples, and included as canonical by the early Church. Those books were removed later from the canon by rabbis because that version of the Bible was used to buttress arguments supporting Christians' claims, and Protestants followed their lead. The way things are written is a slur against the canon accepted by Catholics and almost all of the Orthodox Christians. I call foul. Schoemann (talk) 05:14, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Difficulties overstressed?
The sentence "In terms of theology, Christianity has struggled with the relationship between "Old" and "New" Testaments from its very beginnings.[5][6]" does not reflect the cited sources. The first reference is to the article on Marcion an old copy of Encyclopedia Britannica. This doesn't support the sentence for two reasons: first, he wasn't around at the "very beginning" of Christianity. The earliest Christian writings are characterised by the way they draw heavily on the Old Testament, seeing in it the foretelling of the Christ story. Second, even in his generation, Marcion was out on a limb and rejected by the mainstream church as a heretic. So early Christianity did not struggle with the relationship between Old and New Testament at all. If it had, it mightn't have taken off, coming as it did from Jewish origins and people like Paul who knew the Scriptures backwards. The second reference is not a reference but a footnote to other Wikipedia articles. I therefore propose a more accurate sentence would be something like "In terms of theology, Christianity has recognised the close relationship between the Old and New Testaments from its very beginnings, although there have sometimes been movements like Marcionism (viewed as heretical by the early church), that have struggled with it." That is also more in tune with the two references used. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:20, 14 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Since there has been no objection, I'll insert the text as proposed. --Bermicourt (talk) 21:11, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

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