That is incorrect, there was a canon at the time of Nehemiah
Jesus spoke of the the 3-part division of Hebrew scripture in Luke 24:44, referring to the, “Law of Moses.. the prophets …the Psalms”. This is the current division of the Protestant bible and confirms the Apocrypha was not a part of the Jewish canon
The hebrew canon is in the Babylonian Talmud, the books in the Hebrew “Canon” are the identical 39 books in the Protestant bible.
Are you suggesting that the Septuagint was faulty and incomplete scripture?
Could you point me in the direction of the place in scripture where God took the authority on the canon of the books written for and by the jews?
>> Jesus spoke of the the 3-part division of Hebrew scripture in Luke 24:44, referring to the, “Law of Moses.. the prophets …the Psalms”. <<
No, that’s not the tripartate division. If that were the canon, he would have been leaving out Job, Chronicles, Proverbs, Esther, Song of Solomon, etc. The Saduccees’ canon was just the Law of Moses. The Pharisees’ included the prophets, but excluded the Khetuvim, which included the Deuterocanonicals, but also Job, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ruth, Esther, Song of Solomon, etc.
>> The hebrew canon is in the Babylonian Talmud, the books in the Hebrew “Canon” are the identical 39 books in the Protestant bible <<
That was Luther’s excuse for leaving seven books out... that the Jews did not include them. But the Jews removed them AFTER Christ, specifically because they believed that such “Hellenistic” contamination brought about the zealotry for the Messiah, which they blamed on the fall of Jerusalem. So Luther was essentially arguing, “Let’s favor the Jews who rejected Christ over the Jews who spread the gospel.”
>> Are you suggesting that the Septuagint was faulty and incomplete scripture? <<
Uh, no. The Septuagint was complete, and included the deuterocanonicals. Jerome caught flak for preferring the Hebrew translations over the Septuagint precisely because his enemies twisted this into the lie that he favored the Hebrew canon over the Septuagint’s.
>> Could you point me in the direction of the place in scripture where God took the authority on the canon of the books written for and by the jews? <<
When he split the alter of sacrifice in two, tore the temple curtain and shook the Earth? Otherwise, you’d have to exclude the New Testament.