[title: Excerpt from "A History of Composition and Interpretation", by Dr. Thomas L. Long"

Bibles are the products of centuries of theological and political struggle. In the most obvious sense,

what Jews consider to be "the Bible" and what Christians consider to be "the Bible" are based on

agreements about the role of Judaism in salvation history but disagreements about the significance of

Jesus of Nazareth. Which texts are considered authoritative and divinely inspired (and therefore

included in the Bible) is the question of the canon. Obviously, the Jewish canon differs from the

Christian canon. However, it is also important to note that even among Jews and among Christians

there was not complete agreement upon the canon, particularly that of the Jewish scriptures, what

Christians call the Old Testament.

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