Publication at Hussite Theological Faculty |
2013
Abstract
The article surveys the approach to the Old Testament canon in the ancient Christian Church. It deals mainly with two partial topics.
Firstly, it concerns with the use of deuterocanonical books in the New Testament as well as in the writings of the Apostolic fathers. Secondly, it discusses the most important lists of the canonical books which survived in writings of the patristic authors.
It pays attention especially to the opinion of Jerome about the Old Testament canon. It deduces that there was a difference between the extent of the Old Testament in the Latin speaking Western Church and the Eastern Church where Jerome was staying.