Roger Beckwith Rev. Dr Roger Beckwith is Warden of Latimer House, Oxford, and author of a definitive work on the canon of Scripture.1 The term ‘intertestamental’, though very widely current because of its convenience, is a term reflecting the Protestant conception of the biblical canon. This is the conception anciently championed by Jerome, that the OT of the Christian Bible is identical with the Hebrew Bible of the Jews, and so ends its
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