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The Catholic Bible, Personal Study Edition: New American Bible [B] [a] [r]
(Paperback) Oxford University Press, USA 2007-02-09
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Can anyone tell me the groupings of books in catholic bible? Thanks.
*Is Catholic*
Sure No Problem. This is the breakup of books in my modern Bible. Older bibles can have different names for these groupings.
OLD TESTAMENT
Pentateuch
Historical Books
Wisdom Books
Prophetic Books
NEW TESTAMENT
Gospels
Pauline Epistles
Catholic Epistles
Historical examination of the differences between the Catholic bible and the protestant bible
The New Testament canon of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same with 27 Books.
The difference in the Old Testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ’s life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of scripture.
The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation of 46 books, called the Septuagint, had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from Palestine in Greek cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.
The early Christian Church was born into this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament.
After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books from the Septuagint.
The books removed were Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Sirach, and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the Book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14).
The Christian Church filled with the Holy Spirit did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint. 46 + 27 = 73 Books total.
1500 years later, Protestants decided to keep the Catholic New Testament but change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon.
The books that were removed supported such things as
• Prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45)
• Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7)
• Intercession of saints in heaven (2 Maccabees 15:14)
• Intercession of angels (Tobit 12:12-15)
The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.
Here is a Catholic Bible website: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/
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Why does the Catholic Bible contain 73 books while the Protestant Bible has only 66? With both claiming to have the complete Word of God, which one should be believed and why?
Well, it's over-simple to claim that the "Protestant Bible" has only 66 books. For example, the Anglican Communion uses a Bible with 80 separate Scriptures - and they are most definitely Protestant. Here you can get an idea of which groups use which Scriptures
http://www.bible-reviews.com/charts_scri ptures_d.html
The reason, though, has several steps.
* Luther wrote that those Scriptures mentioned in the Roman Catholic column of the list above were not inspired, but still useful for study and included them in all editions of his Bible
* The Puritans were religiously opposed to the inclusion of those Scriptures. When they produced Bibles without them, a law was enacted in (Protestant) England that prohibited the publishing of Bibles without the Apocrypha.
* Despite this, the practice of producing Bibles without the Apocrypha slowly caught on in other sects and in other languages.
* By 1700, Bibles without the Apocrypha were being produced in England again.
* By 1800, English Bibles without the Apocrypha were more common than other Bibles.
SO - it was a slow process, one not approved by some very important (and large) Protestant sects.
One thing we can say for sure: all of the Scriptures in a 66-book Bible are the word of God. Personally, I recommend that you read the others and determine for yourself if they are inspired or not. All of them except for Baruch were included in **all** Bibles from about 400 to the 1590s (when the Puritans first produced a Bible without). It *seems* that Baruch only started showing up in Bibles after the year 1200.
Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com
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Why did the Roman church, in 1546, at the Council of Trent, add certain books to the Bible, between the Old and New Testaments? We call these 'apocryphal books'. These books were not recognized as canonical by the Jewish church - and are not recognized today by the Protestant church. Why did the Roman church wait hundreds of years to decide to add these books?
They do not follow the true Word of God He specifically addressed what will happen when people do exactly what they did with His Word.
Revelation 22:18-19 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
That church is a cult and does not follow the true Word of God with anything they do.
I'm still in search of a good Teen Catholic Study Bible. I want to make sure I'm reading the proper text and teachings of the catholic church.
In my last post, someone told me that the catholic bible contains the "Book of Wisdom" and others say it has additional books as well that weren't added in the christian bible by the 'founding fathers' for whatever reason.
I mean no disrespect to those who think less of me for asking such questions. I just want to be sure I'm reading the proper text so I would really be grateful if those who answer don't leave rude comments.
If possible, can you recommend some good Catholic Teen Study Bibles.
Thank you and God Bless!!!
The New Testament canon of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same with 27 Books.
The difference in the Old Testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ’s life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of scripture.
The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation of 46 books, called the Septuagint, had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from Palestine in Greek cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.
The early Christian Church was born into this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament.
After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books from the Septuagint.
The books removed were Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Sirach, and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the Book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14).
The Christian Church did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint. 46 + 27 = 73 Books total.
1500 years later, Protestants decided to keep the Catholic New Testament but change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon. The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.
The following Bible translations are approved by the Catholic Chruch for personal use:
+ Douai-Rheims
+ Confraternity Edition
+ Revised Standard Version (RSV) - Catholic Edition
+ New American Bible (NAB )
+ Jerusalem Bible
+ New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)- Catholic Edition
+ New Jerusalem Bible
+ Today's' English Version - Catholic
Only the New American Bible (NAB) is approved for liturgical use in the U.S. and many other English speaking countries. Here is the NAB website: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/
With love in Christ.
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Big difference in sources.
The Catholic uses only the Septuagint Old Testament and the Latin Vulgate New Testament.
Protestant Bibles usually draw on all authorities for the best renderings.
(Actually, the Catholic and Protestent OT and NT have the same number of books. The Catholic Bible has an additional section in between. That’s where the extra books are at.)
There is only ONE Bible, and it is 66 Books.
Catholicism adds books that aren’t God’s Word, and don’t belong there. The OT Jewish people also rejected those books, called the “apocrypha”.
No NT person ever quoted the “apocrypha”. And when you read it, it sounds, seriously, like garbage.
Catholicism is not Christian. Catholicism teaches a false gospel of works that leads to eternal torment in hell (Galatians 1:6-9).
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