-The speculation on the closing of the Jewish canon by the time of Jesus

-The early church father Jerome's approach to canonicity

-The very different ways the term 'Apocryphal' has been used or applied

-The Reformers' and Council of Trent's approaches toward these books

-We also touch on a few of Dr. Hessayon's other interests in the beginning (including "monstrous births" and crypto-Judaism).

Dr. Hessayon is a scholar of early modern history. He has taught courses on European philosophy, the occult, heresy, apocalypticism, and the English Revolution. He is a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. He holds a PhD from Selwyn College, Cambridge University. He has a blog at: arielhessayon.substack.com

The books that Dr. Hessayon mentioned at the end of the episode (as some of his favorite and most influential books on him) are:

*Keith Thomas Religion in the Time of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England

*Gerschom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

*Carlo Ginzberg's The Cheese and the Worms

Dr. Hessayon's article that we made reference to is "The Apocrypha in Early Modern England" from the book Kevin Killeen; Helen Smith and Rachel Willie, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530–1700. Oxford: Oxford UP, pp. 131-148. ISBN 9780199686971 The article can be read here.