The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
5. Why Multiple Biblical Canons?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Jean-Claude Loba Mkole [+]
University of the Free State, South Africa
Jean-Claude Loba Mkole holds a Doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He is a Lay Dominican from Sainte Catherine of Siena Fraternity, Nairobi (Kenya), where he works as a global translation advisor with the United Bible Societies. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. His research includes Bible translation studies and intercultural hermeneutics. He has published “Biblical Canons in Church Traditions and Translations,” The Bible Translator 67 (2016): 108–19; Bible and Orality in Africa: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Edited by Albert Ngengi Mundele, Emanuel Wabandu, and Jean-Claude Mkole OP (Nairobi: Biblical Centre for Africa and Madagascar, 2021); “Jesus: The Apex of
Biblical Canons,” HTS Theological Studies 78/4 (2022): 1–9.
Description
A biblical canon is a list of the books that are considered authoritative and binding in a given Samaritan, Jewish, or Christian community. The number of books in each community’s Bible varies greatly, from five to seventy-six or more.