of Jesus ben Sira. These first generation Christians were soon outnumbered by the Greek speaking Christians, who got used to reading the sacred books according to the Greek canon of Egyptian Jewry, which contained about thirty-five books. The difference with the Hebrew canon is less dramatic than the numbers suggest. The twelve minor prophets are counted as one book in Judaism. The important fact here is that the canon of the Hebrew Bible is essentially a late first-century document that comes chronologically