The Bible-the formation and development of the Old Testament Canon
In this article, the author wants to show why the canonization of biblical books is necessary. We are talking about biblical texts primarily about the Old Testament, from the point of view of historical and archaeological facts. If we consider the text of the Old Testament Scripture within the framework of the traditional Christian religion, any denomination, then we can start with the simplest question: who decided that the Bible is Divine Scripture, where did this answer come from? To the question who said that this is Divine Scripture, the answer will be purely confessional. And if we synthesize more deeply, this question can relate to Rabbinic Judaism, which began with the prophet Moses and ended with the prophet Malachi. The main task of this article is to reveal to the reader what allowed 66 books to form the biblical canon. We present several main theses.