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	[[Rabbinic Judaism]] recognizes the 24 books of the [[Masoretic Text]], commonly called the [[Tanakh]] or [[Hebrew Bible]], as authoritative.		[[Rabbinic Judaism]] recognizes the 24 books of the [[Masoretic Text]], commonly called the [[Tanakh]] or [[Hebrew Bible]], as authoritative.

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New page: Rabbinic Judaism recognizes the 24 books of the Masoretic Text, commonly called the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, as authoritative. The Book of Deuteronomy includes a prohi...

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[[Rabbinic Judaism]] recognizes the 24 books of the [[Masoretic Text]], commonly called the [[Tanakh]] or [[Hebrew Bible]], as authoritative.

The [[Book of Deuteronomy]] includes a prohibition against adding or subtracting, [[Deuteronomy 4:2]] [[Deuteronomy 12:32]] which applys to the book itself (i.e. a "closed book", a prohibition against future [[scribe|scribal]] editing).

The book of [[2 Maccabees]], itself not a part of the Jewish canon, describes [[Nehemiah]] (around 400 BCE) as having "founded a library and collected books about the kings and prophets, and the writings of [[David]], and letters of kings about votive offerings" (2 Maccabees 2:13–15). The [[Book of Nehemiah]] suggests that the priest-scribe [[Ezra]] brought the [[Torah]] back from [[Babylonian captivity|Babylon]] to [[Jerusalem]] and the [[Second Temple]] (Nehemiah 8–9) around the same time period. Both 1 and 2 Maccabees suggest that [[Judas Maccabeus]] (around 167 BCE) also collected sacred books (1 Maccabees 3:42–50, 2 Maccabees 2:13–15, 2 Maccabees 15:6–9).

There is no scholarly consensus as to when the Hebrew Bible canon was fixed: some scholars argue that it was fixed by the [[Hasmonean dynasty]] (140–40 BCE), while others argue it was not fixed until the second century CE or even later.

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Nick at 06:14, 1 January 2018

Nick: New page: Rabbinic Judaism recognizes the 24 books of the Masoretic Text, commonly called the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, as authoritative. The Book of Deuteronomy includes a prohi...