Christianity’s cutting off the old process in order to contrast it with its own new tradition (Gese), both Jews and Christians agree that the canonical process of the Hebrew scriptures, or Old Testament, came to an end, and a different canonical process began for both faiths in the growth of the rabbinic and evangelical traditions. The decisive point is that the Christian church recognized the integrity of the Old Testament for its own faith within its canon of authoritative scripture. It neither
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