were being written down, the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint were certainly recognized by Jews and Christians alike to be Holy Scripture, but both the Hebrew and the Greek canons were still open. The New Testament books are not placed opposite an Old Testament which had long been fixed as to its contents; rather, they refer to a collection of “Holy Scriptures” written in Hebrew and Greek which are still canonically unclosed, and they testify to a continuity of God’s activity in and through Christ,
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