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Donald Weinshank wrote: > BUT BUT BUT the Rabbis did not include Maccabees in the canon. > They certainly could have done so. The books of Daniel and > Esther are from roughly the same period. Even though many modern critical scholars may consider Daniel and Esther to have been written close to the time of the Maccabees (2nd cent. B.C.E.), the rabbis considered those books to have been written closer to the periods they chronicle. I believe they give the cessation of prophecy to be in the time of Ezra (about the 5th cent. B.C.E.), and would not canonize anything after that period. The only way Maccabees could have made it in, would be for it to have been considered some sort of prophecy written four centuries before the events it describes, which the book itself does not claim. -Stanley Nachamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
