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This work grew out of lectures given by Professor Gigot at St. John's Boston Ecclesiastical Seminary and was intended chiefly as a textbook. Its approach is that of the historical-critical method and is divided in three sections: a discussion of how the canon was assembled and recognized as inspired, textual criticism of the manner in which the books have been transmitted to posterity, and...

St. Jerome, the greatest biblical scholar of the day, had publicly declared himself in 390, 394 and 405 A.D. favorable to the limited Canon of the Hebrew Bible; and on the other hand, St. Augustine, the opponent of St. Jerome on many scriptural topics, admitted the Alexandrian Canon,1 and was doing his utmost to have it distinctly recognized by his colleagues in the African episcopate. Finally, it was well known that St. Jerome had made a long residence in Rome, where he had been a personal friend
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