TESTAMONIES OF EXTRA-BIBLICAL WRITERS
Prologue to Ecclesiasticus
Written by the author of Ecclesiasticus’ grandson in 130 B.C. (both named Jesus)– refers to “The Law, and the Prophets, and the other books of the fathers”
Philo
40 A.D. – “The Law, the Prophets, as well as ‘hymns and the others which foster and perfect knowledge and piety’
Josephus
End of 1st Century A.D...."no one has been so bold as either to add anything to them or take anything from them; but it becomes natural to all Jews, immediately and from their very birth, to esteem those books to contain divine doctrines, and to persist in the, and, if occasion be, willingly to die for them…”
The Talmud
Tosefta Yadaim...3:5...“The Gospel and the books of the heretics do not make the hands unclean…”
Seder Olam Rabba...30...“until then (Alexander the Great, end of the Persian empire) the prophets prophesied through the Holy Spirit…”
Tos. Sotah...13:2...“With the death of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi the latter prophets, the Holy Spirit ceased out of Israel”
Melito, Bishop of Sardis lists the books of the Jewish Canon.
Written by the author of Ecclesiasticus’ grandson in 130 B.C. (both named Jesus)– refers to “The Law, and the Prophets, and the other books of the fathers”
Philo
40 A.D. – “The Law, the Prophets, as well as ‘hymns and the others which foster and perfect knowledge and piety’
Josephus
End of 1st Century A.D...."no one has been so bold as either to add anything to them or take anything from them; but it becomes natural to all Jews, immediately and from their very birth, to esteem those books to contain divine doctrines, and to persist in the, and, if occasion be, willingly to die for them…”
The Talmud
Tosefta Yadaim...3:5...“The Gospel and the books of the heretics do not make the hands unclean…”
Seder Olam Rabba...30...“until then (Alexander the Great, end of the Persian empire) the prophets prophesied through the Holy Spirit…”
Tos. Sotah...13:2...“With the death of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi the latter prophets, the Holy Spirit ceased out of Israel”
Melito, Bishop of Sardis lists the books of the Jewish Canon.