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@article{ART001864388},
author={Samuel Cheon},
title={Reconsidering the Process of Making the Old Testament Canon: Focusing on its Standard Theory},
journal={Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies},
issn={1229-0521},
year={2014},
volume={20},
number={1},
pages={200-226},
doi={10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.200}

TY - JOUR
AU - Samuel Cheon
TI - Reconsidering the Process of Making the Old Testament Canon: Focusing on its Standard Theory
JO - Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies
PY - 2014
VL - 20
IS - 1
PB - Korean Society of Old Testament Studies
SP - 200
EP - 226
SN - 1229-0521
AB - The purpose of this study is to reconsider the process of forming the Old Testament. To do so, it critically reviews the so-called ‘the standard theory of the Old Testament canonization,’ which was suggested by H. E. Ryle in the late 19th century, considering the recent scholarly views of the Hebrew Bible's formation. Ryle's theory of its canonization, which is still being taught in theological schools, was very influential in the field of the theological education until the 1960s. However, having studied the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in the 1947-1956, scholars seriously challenged the theory as well as the insistence which the formation of the Hebrew canon was completed in Jamnia Council in which Jewish rabbis met in 90 C.E. This study firstly considers the theory of Jewish Jamnia Council, which was suggested by the Jewish scholar H. Graetz in the 19th century, and suggests that the Old Testament which we have as the present form was not completed at best until the first century. We cannot find any evidence of the argument in any Jewish and Christian literature. Secondly, there is no evidence that the canonization of the Torah and the Prophets were completed in the second century B.C.E. The Dead Sea Scrolls shows that the Jewish sects had different opinions among them about the concept and limit of the Prophetic Books. Thirdly, there is no evidence that the early Christianity did receive the completed Hebrew canon from the Jewish community. Rather it used the Septuagint as their Scripture, without having strict concept of canon.
KW - Old Testament;Old Testament Canon;Jamnia Council;The Writings;Canonization
DO - 10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.200
ER -

Samuel Cheon. (2014). Reconsidering the Process of Making the Old Testament Canon: Focusing on its Standard Theory. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, 20(1), 200-226.

Samuel Cheon. 2014, "Reconsidering the Process of Making the Old Testament Canon: Focusing on its Standard Theory", Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, vol.20, no.1 pp.200-226. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.200

Samuel Cheon "Reconsidering the Process of Making the Old Testament Canon: Focusing on its Standard Theory" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 20.1 pp.200-226 (2014) : 200.

Samuel Cheon. Reconsidering the Process of Making the Old Testament Canon: Focusing on its Standard Theory. 2014; 20(1), 200-226. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.200

Samuel Cheon. "Reconsidering the Process of Making the Old Testament Canon: Focusing on its Standard Theory" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 20, no.1 (2014) : 200-226.doi: 10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.200

Samuel Cheon. Reconsidering the Process of Making the Old Testament Canon: Focusing on its Standard Theory. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, 20(1), 200-226. doi: 10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.200

Samuel Cheon. Reconsidering the Process of Making the Old Testament Canon: Focusing on its Standard Theory. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies. 2014; 20(1) 200-226. doi: 10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.200

Samuel Cheon. Reconsidering the Process of Making the Old Testament Canon: Focusing on its Standard Theory. 2014; 20(1), 200-226. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.200

Samuel Cheon. "Reconsidering the Process of Making the Old Testament Canon: Focusing on its Standard Theory" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 20, no.1 (2014) : 200-226.doi: 10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.200