Canon
Messianic believers commonly hold the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, to be divinely inspired. The New Testament scriptures (Brit Chadasha or "New Covenant") are commonly considered to also be divinely inspired.
- Torah meaning "The Law", "Teaching" or "Instruction". Also called the Chumash ("The five"), "The Five Books of Moses" or the "Pentateuch".
- Nevi'im meaning "Prophets".
- Ketuvim meaning "Writings" or "Hagiographa".
- Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
- Acts of the Apostles
- Epistles of Jude, John, James, Peter, Paul and the Epistle to the Hebrews.
- Book of Revelation
David H. Stern has produced a Messianic Jewish version of the Bible called the Complete Jewish Bible.
Read more about this topic: Messianic Jewish Theology
Famous quotes containing the word canon:
“The greatest block today in the way of woman’s emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“O! that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew;
Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d
His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world.
Fie on’t! O fie! ‘tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed;”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)