How the Bible Became Holy

• Autores: John Barton (res.)
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 621-623
• Idioma: inglés

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  • How the Bible Became Holy

    Michael L. Satlow

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• Resumen

  • quite unusually, he adopts a somewhat minimalist approach to the importance of sacred books in both Judaism and Christianity, arguing that in both cases authoritative scripture arrived much later on the scene than is often supposed. [...]even in the first and second centuries c.e., most Jews were focused on custom and tradition, on what came to be known as the Oral Torah rather than on the Written Torah-so that the Mishnah, in the second century c.e., cites the Hebrew Bible rather little and is not organized with attention to the biblical order of books, but according to major themes of rabbinic interest. In both Judaism and Christianity, there was no fixed canon until well into the Common Era, and many books were regarded as inspiring and useful without being assessed according to a binary scheme of Scripture/non-Scripture. [...]questions such as "Was 1 Enoch canonical in the first century CE?" are unanswerable, because they are based on a false premise.