The subject of this book is the teaching of Jesus and his apostles, and the resultant beliefs of the New Testament Church, on the Old Testament canon, understood against the background of the Judaism of the first century and the centuries immediately preceding. ‘Canon’ is really a Greek word meaning a rule, but since the fourth century AD it has been used to denote the correct list of the Scriptures, and by consequence the collection of books so listed. Prior to the fourth century the