Composition of the Intertestamental Jewish Apocrypha
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- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Theology, Theologians, Judaism, Jews, Synagogues, Temples
- Curriculum: Middle Eastern History, Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Egypt, Palestine
- Date: c. 200 -c. 100
Article abstract: Noncanonical Jewish religious writings composed in the three centuries before the emergence of the New Testament provided early Christians with a sense of continuity between Judaism and Christianity.
Summary of Event
Between 200 b.c.e. and 100 c.e., many Jewish religious writings appeared in Palestine that were destined not only to remain outside the canon but also to be completely ignored by normative Judaism by the end of the first century in the common era. When the Synod of Jamnia closed the canon, Jewish religious thought preferred...
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