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1/ Listening to a good apologetics podcast (link 👇) today from @DrTimothyPJones, I was especially interested in his answers to the questions on the formation of the canon of Scripture around 40:45. The answer to the NT (about 40:50-46:30) was fine.
The OT one though (46:30)...
The OT one though (46:30)...
2/ I think he captured the early church's view of the deuterocanonical books well when he said "they were some really great books." But the story for how they ended up in the Roman Catholic canon and not the Protestant one is not quite right, IMHO.
3/ It goes awry when the Septuagint was brought into the story. "The 70" translated the Law of Moses and nothing is said about them collecting all kinds of books translated into or written in Greek. Not until Justin Martyr (ca. 165 AD) are the 70 responsible for the whole OT.
