[Matchett-PI]

"To historically learn the Apostolic Canon of the Old Testament we must interrogate less sacred but later documents, expressing more explicitly the belief of the first ages of Christianity."

NOOOO KIDDING!!

"The inclusion of of various Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in the canon of the early Christians was not done in any any agreed way or at the earliest period, but occurred in Gentile Christianity, after the church's breach with the synagogue, among those whose knowledge of the primitive Christian canon was becoming blurred. .... On the question of the canonicity of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha the truely primitive evidence is negative." ~ Roger Beckwith -The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church and Its Background in Early Judaism(London: SPCK, 1985, and Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986), esp.pp.338-433.

Roger Beckwith's book has now established itself as the definitive work on the Old Testament canon.

[Aquinasfan]

Roger Beckwith's book has now established itself as the definitive work on the Old Testament canon.

I'll go with the infallible canon of Christ's Church, "the pillar and foundation of truth." You can go with Roger Beckwith's infallible canon.