issues were clarified, there remained little doubt that these books were not canonical. (Geisler and Nix, GIB, 317) 1. The Jamnia Theory Many scholars have theorized that a council of rabbis that convened at Jamnia, near Jaffa, in AD 90 finally agreed upon which books would be included in the Hebrew canon and which ones would not. The problem with this theory is that the Jamnia gathering reached neither of these conclusions. The rabbis did not fix (settle upon a final list for)