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J 1135 1895 m lill THE THE GIFT QF >,|iii [ r >li iii [ L i rnnm i BS1135.wl7«9r The origin of the "''*''*'"'' canon of the Old Testa 3 1924 008 063 012 B S The tine Cornell University Library original of tiiis book is in Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924008063012 THE ORIGIN OF THE Canon of the Old Testament. An Historico-Critical Enquiry BY Dp. G. VVildeboeR; Professor at Gr onin g- en. Translated by BENJAMIN WISNER BACON, EDITED WITH PREFACE BY PROF. GEORGE LONDON M.A.,D.D. F. MOORE. I Esdras 4, 41- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. In publishing this investigation of the origin of the Canon of the Old Testament the author hopes measure to supply a lack. some course, a great deal has Canon, as may be seen from, the been written about the literature at the end Of in of Strack's Herzog's Real-Encyclopaedie \_2 article, ed. " Kanon" VII. p. 45 f^, in and every work on Introduction has something on the subject. To name only the best of much that good, I refer to is the close of the third part of Prof. Kuenen's Historisch- Kritisch Onderzoek naar het Ontstaan en de Verzameling van de Boeken des Ouden Verbonds, Leiden, 186$, III. p. 2g4 —450. complete, What and it is has been subjected I have felt additional additional ; is there given be said. to constrained, however, and something of a because, to offer different kind. naturally, But my purpose less material most thorough criticism. something Something a quarter of a century there is somewhat more was, also, to publish a work of somewhat different character. more or almost absolutely needless to say that all the after Kuenen's excellent work, to is I do not refer here to considerable differences of opinion, the different plan of the work. but to I have tried to arrive IV of the history of canonization, tenable conception at a attention and have given particular which were operative in motives To here. I and, material, But Testament. which was particular, in the treated have afforded by this respect the book in and Schools, have also introduced some some fulness the evidence loith Much and be properly discussed Jewish the in twelfth, owe their existence. additional the causes fact paragraphs such as the eighth, on the this of Canonicity Idea * it. may out of place in an Introduction to New the