JETS 52:1 (March 2009) p. 69 example. My own view is clear. I think that a strong case can be made for the idea of a canon in the sense of canon 2 within most circles in Judaism at least by the first century BC. There may well have been other canons or open canons among various groups. But I would like to move toward what I believe is a way beyond this impasse, and it involves a sphere of biblical scholarship which has largely been ignored in the debate over the canons. This includes internal evidence