Palestiniancanon of Scripture, which was not officially recognized by Jews until around A.D. 100. Prior to Jesus’ time, the Jews did not have a universal, sharply defined canon of Scripture. Some groups of Jews used only the first five books of the Old Testament (the Pentateuch); some used only the Palestinian canon (thirty-nine books); some used the Alexandrian canon (forty-six books); and some, like the Dead Sea community, used all these and more. The Palestinian and Alexandrian