The Closing of the Old Testament

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Chapter 25

• The Closing of the Old Testament

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Judaism at the Dawn of the Christian Era

• Not an end to the Jewish Faith
• Religious movements of 1st Century B.C.
• The Pharisees
• The Sadducees
• The Essenes

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Creating the Old Testament Canon

• The word Canon
• The Jewish and Protestant Canon
• The Catholic and Orthodox Canon

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The Talmud

• halakah
• haggadah

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Hope for the Messiah
The Anointed One