Talk:Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture
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Yo, Rube! What about gemara? Gonna tell me tomarra? :-) --208.246.35.242
Kaynahara! I ma just glad that you could fix up my admittedly sloppy attempt to fix up something that really needed it!
I thank everyone who has added to this article. As is often the case, no one person could write it by himself.
However, at the moment I'm primarily interested in the names as opposed to the contents of all the various canons, testaments, groupings of books and books. So I'm planning on trimming as much as possible from the article and moving it to a linked article. So if Torah means teaching, the user can click on Torah and find Torah ("teaching") is, etc. But here I just want a place to keep all the terminology straight.
The Books of the Bible article is for more in-depth info. What does it all mean? Why is it important? And so on. The weightier issues of the contents of these books can go elsewhere; here is just to keep track of the names of them all. Okay? --Ed Poor 18:18 Oct 31, 2002 (UTC)
"the deuterocanonical books or sometimes as the apocrypha, as a part of the Old Testament. They are not accepted as canonical by Protestants and were eventually accepted by Jews as part of the Tanach (although some ancient Jews appear to have accepted them)."
Do Jews accept the apocrypha or not? Strange sentence. Also why isn't Tanach defined on the page? Rmhermen 21:09, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)
Doesn't this article just repeat material in other articles? What is the specific function? I know I myself added material a long time ago, after Ed Poor wrote the original stub. But there have been many more detailed articles written since then -- maybe we no longer need this? Slrubenstein
