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The correct composition of the collection or list of books which should constitute the Old Testament has been a matter of disagreement among Christians since the second century of our era, and among Jews and Samaritans even longer. The status of the books of Ezekiel, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs and Esther was the subject of rabbinical argument in the first three centuries A.D.,...

observer of these problems and controversies. He writes as a Christian, not as a Jew, and as an Anglican of Protestant sympathies, engaged (as a representative of his Church) in discussion with the Eastern Orthodox, and not as a Roman Catholic. At its Reformation the Church of England, like the other Reformation churches, appealed to the teaching of Jesus and to the Hebrew Bible against the canon propounded by the Council of Trent, and the dilemma with which Bellarmine confronted other Protestants
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