catholic bible book

I am doing a project for religion class (grade nine) and I need to find the time period of the book I've chosen, which would be Judith, a history book of the Bible. I would have asked my teacher but we've had a substitute since the day it was assigned. So, I ask:
What is the time period of the Book of Judith in the Catholic Bible?

Thanks.

The Seleucid King Antiochus Epiphanies is mentioned, he ruled from 175 BC to 164 BC; so it would be around that time period. Roughly the same period of the Maccabees Revolt.

2010-03-09 12:42:54 by Lynn

Historical examination of the differences between the Catholic bible and the protestant bible

I know that the Protestants removed a book or two from the Catholic Bible when they split.

..... doesn't that change the "word of God"???

Yes they removed the Deuterocanonical books.

Martin Luther wanted to remove some of the New Testament books as well, and even added words such as the word "alone". He also removed certain verses.

+++ (Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible, (c) 2001, p. 116)"Luther's principle, while the testimony of the Holy Spirit was Calvin's. With Luther the Reformation was based on justification by faith. This truth Luther held to be confirmed (a) by its necessity, nothing else availing, and (b) by its effects, since in practice it brought peace, assurance, and the new life. Then those Scriptures which manifestly support of it determined the degree of their authority. Thus the doctrine of justification by faith is no accepted because it is found in the Bible; but the Bible is accepted because it contains this doctrine. Moreover, the Bible is sorted and arranged in grades according as it does so more or less clearly, and to Luther there is 'a NT within the NT,' a kernel of all Scripture, consisting of those books which he sees most clearly set forth the gospel. Thus he wrote: 'John's Gospel, the Epistles of Paul, especially Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, and 1 Peter---these are the books which show thee Christ, and teach all that it is needful and blessed for thee to know even if you never see or hear any other book, or any other doctrine. Therefore is the Epistle of James a mere epistle of straw (eine rechte stroherne Epistel) since it has no character of the gospel in it' (Preface to NT , 1522; the passage was omitted from later editions). Luther places Hebrews, James, Jude, and the Apocalypse at the end of his translation, after the other NT books, which he designates 'the true and certain capital books of the NT, for these have been regarded in former times in a different light.' He regards Jude as 'indisputably an extract or copy from 2 Peter.' Nevertheless, while thus discriminating between the values of the several books of the NT, he includes them all in his translation. Luther's friend Carlstadt has a curious arrangement of Scripture in three classes, viz. (1) The Pentateuch and the 4 Gospels, as being 'thee clearest luminaries of the whole Divine truth'; (2) The Prophets 'of Hebrew reckoning' and the acknowledged Epistles of the NT, viz. 13 of Paul, 1 Peter, 1 John; (3) the Hagiographa of the Hebrew Canon, and the 7 disputed books of the NT. Dr. Westcott suggested that the omission of Acts was due to its being included with Luke . Calvin is more conservative with regard to Scripture than the Lutherans. Still in his Commentaries he passes over 2 and 3 John and the Revelation without notice, and he refer to 1 John as 'the Epistle of John,' and expresses doubts as to 2 Peter; but he adds, with regard to the latter, 'Since the majesty of the Spirit of Christ exhibits itself in every part of the Epistle, I feel a scruple in rejecting it wholly, however much I fail to recognize in it the genuine language of Peter' (Com. on 2 Peter, Argument). Further, Calvin acknowledges the existence of doubt with respect both to James and to Jude; but he accepts them both. He allows full liberty of opinion concerning the authorship of Hebrews; but he states that he has no hesitation in classing it among Apostolic writings."
+++"In the Reformation there was questioning of the New Testament Canon, notably by Luther, who would reject especially James, because it’s disagreement with the Lutheran tenant of justification by faith alone." (The Columbia Encyclopedia, copyright 1958, p. 1393)

Catholics have Apocrypha also they are 1 Enoch, 3 Machabees, the Prayer of Manasseh, 1 Esdras, Psalm 151, 1 Clement, the Didache, the Shepherd of Hermas, 3 Corinthians, and the Apocalypse of Peter.
These books are considered Pseudepigrapha to Protestants.

Catholics also have Pseudepigrapha, these books are: The Acts of Andrew, The Acts and Martyrdom of Andrew, The Acts of Andrew and Matthew, The Acts of Barnabas, Martyrdom of Bartholomew, The Acts of John, The Mystery of the Cross-Excerpt from the Acts of John, The Acts of John the Theologian, The History of Joseph the Carpenter, The Book of John Concerning the Death of Mary, The Passing of Mary, The Acts and Martyrdom of Matthew, The Martyrdom of Matthew, The Acts of Paul, The Acts of Paul and Thecla, The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, A 5th Century Compilation of the Thomas Texts, An Arabic Infancy Gospel, The Gospel of James, The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, The Gospel of Mary [Magdalene], The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, The Acts of Peter, The Acts of Peter and Andrew, The Apocalypse of Adam, The Revelation of Esdras, The First Apocalypse of James, The Second Apocalypse of James, etc. There are a total of 60, these books were rejected by the Catholic Church and thus are not within the Bible.

2009-07-18 12:48:29 by Denver

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okay, so I use the Protestant Bible (66 books; OT, NT). I would like to know...

1) what gospels other than Matt, Mark, Luke and John are in the Catholic Bible
2) are there also other books in the Catholic Bible besides the OT?
3) is there a book of priestly conduct?

thank you

1) None.
2) No.
3) Not in the 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 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.

Here is a Catholic Bible website: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/

With love in Christ.

2007-05-01 19:23:59 by Hey, Ray

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I have qualms about buying it, sense they give it out for free to illiterate drunks. Please help me i have some questions that i need to find on my own. And no i do not want to switch religions. Thank You

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2007-05-25 15:46:45 by kelly s

witch is correct? for give me if the catholic bible also has many different versons of their book. I do not know much about them. What is the difference? and which one do you perfer and think is correct?
the prist says they took books out of the bible, while the other churchs say they added stuff in.

Very good question. There were many different translations in Latin even in St. Jerome's time.

As you probably know, when words are translated, in many instances the original meanings of words are adapted/changed because there is no perfect fit for a specific word. An example, the German word "Geist" can mean "ghost," "spirit" or "mind."

And certain books of the Bible were included or excluded from the Bible based on when the books were written, such as the controversial book of Judas.

Biblical history and scholarship are very interesting topics which provide for much interesting reading.

2007-08-13 20:14:50 by theegreatseeker