. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. hisfnid,? liah hadcolk-dtfU the booksof the Kiiijis, of the P: i of DaviJ. It is faid th;it this caiiun was then approv-;i by liie gra;id lanhedrim, ihn great fynagojjiie or of fcventy, and publilhed by i's authonty. It is, J; n( â¢>â¢-, fays Dupin, more apparerd that abcit that time the of the facred books was fixed among the Jews by a canon, which the whole Jewiih nation received and followed; fo that they looked no longer upon fuch books as facTvd and d
. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. hisfnid,? liah hadcolk-dtfU the booksof the Kiiijis, of the P: i of DaviJ. It is faid th;it this caiiun was then approv-;i by liie gra;id lanhedrim, ihn great fynagojjiie or of fcventy, and publilhed by i's authonty. It is, J; n( â¢>â¢-, fays Dupin, more apparerd that abcit that time the of the facred books was fixed among the Jews by a canon, which the whole Jewiih nation received and followed; fo that they looked no longer upon fuch books as facTvd and divinely infpired, which wen: not contained in this canon. The canon of the w lio!e Hebrew bible feenis, fays Kennicott, to have been clofed by ^^al:^chi, the latell of the Jewilh prophets ; about 50 years after Ezra liad col- lected to;;ether ail the facreJ books which had been coin- pofed before and his time. Prideaiix fuppofes tlie canon wa« clofed by Simon the .lull, about 150 years after Malachi. But, as !iis opinion is founded merely on a few proper * at the end of two genealogies (i Chron. iii. 19. and Neh. xii. 22.), which few names mi^ht very cafily be i'l'i-d by a tranfcnber afterwards; it is more prol)able, as Keniiicott thinks, that the canon was finifted by the lall of contained ^mentations among ilie bo,,ks the canon of the Jews ; but Athan^ and Ka7,nn7en do not reckon the book of Efther among thrm, and d>:ln,guiih Ruth from the book of ;es ; , â . â , ... r -»"s, ani Jc â " ' one_ volume of Ruth and , and intmduce the book of whereas ^ H,lan- Epiphanius. ani Jcrom. make SnK- on volume of Ruth and Judges, and intmduce he book of Ellher .nto the number of the twenty-two books reckoned by the Jews ns canonical. They who diilinguiihed Rnth from the book of Judges, and the Lamentat^.s from he ^U^fV I ^""1"."''; ri^""^^ "P twenty-four of the , rhefe books are di
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