Editing Old Testament (section)

===Protestant canon===
In the 16th century, the Protestant reformers sided with Jerome; yet although most Protestant Bibles now have only those books that appear in the Hebrew Bible, the order is that of the Greek Bible.{{Sfn | Barton | 1997 | pp = 80–81}}

Rome then officially adopted a canon, the [[Canon of Trent]], which is seen as following Augustine's Carthaginian Councils<ref>{{citation |chapter-url=http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/3_ch09.htm |title=History of the Christian Church |chapter=Chapter IX. Theological Controversies, and Development of the Ecumenical Orthodoxy |author=Philip Schaff |publisher=CCEL|author-link=Philip Schaff }}</ref> or the [[Council of Rome]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Lindberg |title=A Brief History of Christianity |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |year=2006 |page=15}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |edition=2nd |editor=F.L. Cross, E.A. Livingstone |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1983 |page=232}}</ref> and includes most, but not all, of the Septuagint ([[3 Ezra]] and 3 and 4 Maccabees are excluded);{{Sfn | Soggin | 1987 | p = 19}} the [[Anglican]]s after the [[English Civil War]] adopted a compromise position, restoring the [[39 Articles]] and keeping the extra books that were excluded by the [[Westminster Confession of Faith]], both for private study and for [[Christian liturgy#Anglican Communion|reading in churches]] but not for establishing any doctrine, while Lutherans kept them for private study, gathered in an appendix as [[biblical apocrypha]].{{Sfn | Barton | 1997 | pp = 80–81}}