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Reconsidering the Process of Making the OldTestament Canon:Focusing on its Standard TheorySamuel Cheon, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Christian StudiesHannam UniversityThe purpose of this study is to reconsider the process of forming theOld Testament. To do so, it critically reviews the so-called ‘the standardtheory of the Old Testament canonization,’ which was suggested by H. E. Ryle in the late 19th century, considering the recent scholarly views of theHebrew Bible's formation. Ryle's theory of its canonization, which is stillbeing taught in theological schools, was very influential in the field of thetheological education until the 1960s. However, having studied the DeadSea Scrolls discovered in the 1947-1956, scholars seriously challenged thetheory as well as the insistence which the formation of the Hebrew canonwas completed in Jamnia Council in which Jewish rabbis met in 90 C.E. This study firstly considers the theory of Jewish Jamnia Council, whichwas suggested by the Jewish scholar H. Graetz in the 19th century, andsuggests that the Old Testament which we have as the present form wasnot completed at best until the first century. We cannot find any evidenceof the argument in any Jewish and Christian literature. Secondly, there isno evidence that the canonization of the Torah and the Prophets werecompleted in the second century B.C.E. The Dead Sea Scrolls shows thatthe Jewish sects had different opinions among them about the conceptand limit of the Prophetic Books. Thirdly, there is no evidence that theearly Christianity did receive the completed Hebrew canon from the Jewishcommunity. Rather it used the Septuagint as their Scripture, without havingstrict concept of canon.

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본 논문은 19세기말 라일에 의해서 제시된 구약정경형성의 표준이론을 최근학자들의 견해에 따라 비판적으로 검토하면서 기원후 1세기말까지는 오늘날과 같은 형태의 구약정경이 확정되지 않았고, 경전에 대한 개념이나 범위가 유대 종파마다 달랐다는 것을 제시한다. 이러한 주장은 사해사본의 발견 이후 연구된 결과들에 주로 의존한다.