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Some questions
Postby pilipos on Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:52 pm
Hello Mr. Yaaqub :)
Please, could you explain what are the meaning of these terms and their relations (if exist) with the Peshitta Tanakh?
"Canonnical books"
"Pseudepigrapha"
"Apocrypha"
"Deuterocanonical books"
For exemplo, I like to know if the book "The wars of Jews", from Ambrosiano Manuscript, is considered Canonnical, Apocrypha, etc.
PS. Sorry for my bad English, but that is not my first language....
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Shlama/Shalom Pilipos,
I'm glad you were able to register in the forum. And your English is just fine.
In the Jewish sense, the "Canonical Books" refer to those books of the Tanakh that have become accepted by Jewish authorities as being the writings intended by MarYah (YHWH) for proper, divine instruction. In the Christian sense I believe this means the same thing basically but the authorities differ on what is "canonical" (or perhaps "inspired") or not.
The word "pseudepigrapha" comes from a Greek combination of two words meaning "false writing." These generally refer to books that were written but the authoriship can not be determined and sometimes the work is attributed to someone else but there is no proof that the individual actually did write it. The "Book of Enoch" fits this description, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's false. Some groups might say a book is false while another group might consider it to be "canonical." It all depends on the authority who judges the work.
Apocrypha usually refers to those books that might be included in the Tanakh but not necessarily of higher authority than those that are considered to be "Canonical."
The "Deuterocanonical" books refers to the "Apocryphal" books. It's just another word basically meaning the same thing. Some might differ in their opinion of it though. The word "Deuterocanon" is typically used by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians while Protestant Christians use the word "Apocrypha." And both these sects of Christianity differ on what they determine as being Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal.
Some consider Josephesus' "Wars of the Jews" to be canonical while others consider it to be apocryphal. Again, it depends on the authority. My ancestors considered it to be somewhat "canonical" but it does not have as great importance as, for example, the Book of Genesis or Psalms, etc. but still considered worthy of reading and proper instruction in Tanakh. In my personal opinion, this particular book was added to the Aramaic Tanakh by Aramaic and Syriac speaking Christians when they adopted the Aramaic Tanakh for their own use.
In times past Assyrian Jews considered the Aramaic Tanakh as the official Bible for authentic Judaism but as many of them have assimilated into Western cultures when they immigrated to the West, they began accepting the Hebrew Masoretic Tanakh instead and it does not contain the same books. For a perspective on the Western Jewish tradition (for example, non-Assyrian Aramiac Jewish) see this lenghtly article from the Jewish Encyclopedia. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1025&letter=B It's interesting to find that Nachmanides quotes, in the introduction to his commentary on the Torah, the Aramaic Peshitta version of the Wisdom of Solomon, and in his commentary on Deut. 21:14, the Book of Judith.
Please be aware that the article does not necessarily express Assyrian Jewish sentiment. You can see a list of the books in the Aramaic Tanakh on this link http://pshitta.org/english/
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Re: Some questions
Postby pilipos on Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:38 pm
Mr. Yaaqub,
Thank you very much for your reply. Very helpfull. :)
Shlama
ܦܝܠܝܦܘܤ
pilipos
Some questions
Postby pilipos on Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:52 pm
Hello Mr. Yaaqub :)
Please, could you explain what are the meaning of these terms and their relations (if exist) with the Peshitta Tanakh?
"Canonnical books"
"Pseudepigrapha"
"Apocrypha"
"Deuterocanonical books"
For exemplo, I like to know if the book "The wars of Jews", from Ambrosiano Manuscript, is considered Canonnical, Apocrypha, etc.
PS. Sorry for my bad English, but that is not my first language....
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Shlama/Shalom Pilipos,
I'm glad you were able to register in the forum. And your English is just fine.
In the Jewish sense, the "Canonical Books" refer to those books of the Tanakh that have become accepted by Jewish authorities as being the writings intended by MarYah (YHWH) for proper, divine instruction. In the Christian sense I believe this means the same thing basically but the authorities differ on what is "canonical" (or perhaps "inspired") or not.
The word "pseudepigrapha" comes from a Greek combination of two words meaning "false writing." These generally refer to books that were written but the authoriship can not be determined and sometimes the work is attributed to someone else but there is no proof that the individual actually did write it. The "Book of Enoch" fits this description, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's false. Some groups might say a book is false while another group might consider it to be "canonical." It all depends on the authority who judges the work.
Apocrypha usually refers to those books that might be included in the Tanakh but not necessarily of higher authority than those that are considered to be "Canonical."
The "Deuterocanonical" books refers to the "Apocryphal" books. It's just another word basically meaning the same thing. Some might differ in their opinion of it though. The word "Deuterocanon" is typically used by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians while Protestant Christians use the word "Apocrypha." And both these sects of Christianity differ on what they determine as being Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal.
Some consider Josephesus' "Wars of the Jews" to be canonical while others consider it to be apocryphal. Again, it depends on the authority. My ancestors considered it to be somewhat "canonical" but it does not have as great importance as, for example, the Book of Genesis or Psalms, etc. but still considered worthy of reading and proper instruction in Tanakh. In my personal opinion, this particular book was added to the Aramaic Tanakh by Aramaic and Syriac speaking Christians when they adopted the Aramaic Tanakh for their own use.
In times past Assyrian Jews considered the Aramaic Tanakh as the official Bible for authentic Judaism but as many of them have assimilated into Western cultures when they immigrated to the West, they began accepting the Hebrew Masoretic Tanakh instead and it does not contain the same books. For a perspective on the Western Jewish tradition (for example, non-Assyrian Aramiac Jewish) see this lenghtly article from the Jewish Encyclopedia. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1025&letter=B It's interesting to find that Nachmanides quotes, in the introduction to his commentary on the Torah, the Aramaic Peshitta version of the Wisdom of Solomon, and in his commentary on Deut. 21:14, the Book of Judith.
Please be aware that the article does not necessarily express Assyrian Jewish sentiment. You can see a list of the books in the Aramaic Tanakh on this link http://pshitta.org/english/
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Re: Some questions
Postby pilipos on Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:38 pm
Mr. Yaaqub,
Thank you very much for your reply. Very helpfull. :)
Shlama
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