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→Protestant canon: the Old Testament never consisted of 73 books - the contributor evidently meant the Catholic canon of the whole Bible as defined by the Council of Trent
==Protestant canon==
==Protestant canon==
The Protestant canon of 66 books was originally formulated by [[Martin Luther]], who removed several books and texts from the 73 books of the Old Testament as read by the Catholic Church and separated them as "apocryphal". Some editions of the Protestant Bible feature them in a section between the Old and New Testaments as '''The Apocrypha''' (Greek, plural, "apocrypha", singular "apocryphon"). He cited the rabbinical authority of the Jews who have rejected these books as having no place in the Hebrew canon.
The Protestant canon of 66 books was originally formulated by [[Martin Luther]], who removed several books and texts from the Old Testament [[tradition]]ally included among the 73 books of the Bible as read by the Catholic Church and separated them as "apocryphal". Some editions of the Protestant Bible feature them in a section between the Old and New Testaments as '''The Apocrypha''' (Greek, plural, "apocrypha", singular "apocryphon"). He cited the rabbinical authority of the Jews who have rejected these books as having no place in the Hebrew canon. The same rabbinical authority also rejected all of the Christian writings.
==Council of Jamnia ? A.D. 70==
==Council of Jamnia ? A.D. 70==