A group, perhaps a school, of Jewish rabbis, unsaved by
Christian standards, collected a Hebrew canon at Jamnia,
in Palestine, by the end of the first century. It is believed they
may have been equally pressured to this canon by the demands
of the Christian Church of the time. They collected a still
unfixed canon of between 22 and 24 books.
Historians place the fixed canon for both the Alexandrian
and Palestinian translations at the end of the second century.
Bishop Melito of Sardis recorded the first known list of the
Septuagint canon in 170 AD. The Septuagint canon contained
45/46 books (Lamentation was once considered a part of
Jeremiah); the Palestinian canon contained 39 books.
Hebrew Scriptures:
Palestinian Canon
22/24 books
Old Testament canon:
Alexandrian Canon
45/46 books
Bible: Leviticus. Egypt, late 2nd century. The oldest manuscript of Septuagint
170 AD Melito of Sardis