From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 20 20:23:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE72337B403 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 20:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA26490; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 21:23:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011020212118.048eb010@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 21:23:28 -0600 To: Ian Pulsford , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror) In-Reply-To: <3BD19B9D.C290DEE3@optusnet.com.au> References: <20011004132949.D16297@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010924170815.0180aee8@threespace.com> <20010925001027.A750@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20011003210717.0442cb20@localhost> <20011004132949.D16297@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20011019203955.0464d920@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:43 AM 10/20/2001, Ian Pulsford wrote: >The bible, as we have it today, is a selection made by the early Roman >church and later revisions. Many texts didn't make the cut, now known >as apocryphal or non-cannonical texts. Even modern catholic and >protestant bibles are different. Almost, but not quite. The portion called the "Old Testament" -- known to Jews as the "Tanach" (Torah, Prophets, and Writings) -- was canonized by the Pharisees. The "New Testament" was canonized by the early Catholic church. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message