Jimmy Akin alleges James White’s Apocrypha argument relies on outdated scholarship

What was said

"James White is relying on the views of one particular author named Beckwith who um wrote several decades ago and that's a long time in scholarship. He was like writing back in the 1980s. And Beckwith uniquely among compared to other scholars argued that the Jews had a registry of some kind in the temple of all of the books that they considered scripture."

Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin alleges Protestant apologist James White’s claim about Jews “laying up” books in the Temple relies on 1980s scholarship by Roger Beckwith. Akin says Beckwith’s Temple “registry” idea is widely rejected and argues Jewish views of Scripture were not settled in that period.