Beklager, jeg har litt hang-up på kanonspørsmål for tiden. Sitatet nedenfor stamner fra den store qumranitt Ulrich:
"Prior to the end of the first century, we do not have a canon in either Judaism or Christianity. We have a canon-in-the-making, but we do not have a canon. We have, well documented by practice, the concept of authoritative sacred books which are to be preserved very faithfully. And we have a "canonical process", that is, the activity by which books later to become accepted as the canon were produced and treated as sacred and authoritative. But we do not have a canon or a canonical text before the end of the first century."
E. Ulrich, "The Canonical Process, Textual Criticism, and Latter Stages in the composition of the Bible," in M. Fishbane and E. Tov (eds.), ´Sha´arei Talmon´: Studies in the Bible, 274.
Man kunne legge til at skillet mellom såkalte "autoritative skrifter" og andre skrifter heller ikke alltid er så lett å etablere på denne tiden.
Årstein
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