Mary: The Ark of the New Covenant

Catholic Culture ^ | February 24, 2006 | Steve Ray

[Salvation]

May God bless you as you continue on this faith journey through life!

[Convert from ECUSA]

Thanks for posting this!

[magisterium]

Excellent article! Well laid-out and reader-friendly. I hope everyone opening this thread will carefully read the whole article before posting.

[Jaded]

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[Rupert Pandrakos]

This is a good information, yes, but it's really just a warmed over version of Patrick Madrid's article examining this important subject back in 1991 in his article "Ark of the New Covennant," (This Rock Magazine, Catholic Answers)

http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1991/9112fea1.asp

It seems that Ray has simply repackaged the essence of Madrid's article.

[sanormal]

The so-called "Council of Yavneh" is conjectural.

The city did become a center of scholarship after the destruction of the Second Temple when Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai reestablished the Sanhedrin there. Rabban Gamaliel II attracted many of the greatest scholars of the day. Yavneh remained a center of scholarship until the Bar Kokhba revolt in the early 2nd century, CE.

The earliest evidence of a "Palestinian Canon" may be found in the final redaction of the Mishnah, around 200 CE. The Mishnah shows certain disagreements among the Jews regarding the canon, however, no canonical list is given.

Certainly the Dead Sea Scrolls evidence a wide variety of Jewish thought on the nature of the Jewish canon and inspiration in this period.

The Septuagint or Greek Jewish Canon appears about 200 BCE and remains influential on Jews in the Diaspora and Christians until the final redaction of the Mishnah, around 200 CE.

The first evidence of a complete Jewish Canon in the post-second Temple period is the Masoretic efforts which began in the 7th century CE and was not complete until the 10th century CE.

There is no evidence of a settled Jewish Canon in the post-second Temple period until the Aleppo Codex, circa 920 CE. Maimonedes used the Aleppo Codex to compile the Hilkhot Sefer Torah (Laws of the Torah Scroll) in his Mishnah Torah in which he sets down the exact rules for transcription. His halakhic ruling sets down the Aleppo Codex as the supreme textual authority for the Jewish Scriptures, in effect "closing" the Jewish canon.

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