The process of canonization of the three sections of the Hebrew Bible

This paper aims to trace the diachronic path of the canonization of the three sections that make up the Hebrew Bible (Laws, Prophets and Writings), paying special attention to the theories and hypotheses that have been put forward in the past and, in modern times, rejected and replaced by others. The traditional hypothesis about the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible - according to which the canonization of each of the three sections would have happened, respectively, in the Persian period, in the Greek period and at the so-called Council of Jamnia - will be presented, as well as the modern criticisms that various researchers have directed against it, proposing new ways of understanding the genesis of the biblical canon.