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2006-08-06 08:16:12 · 7 answers · asked by 345Grasshopper 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The New American version is used in all U.S. Catholic Churches.
The Catholic Bible has a few extra Old Testament books that the Protestants have dropped.
The New Testament canon of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same.
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, 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 Christian Church did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint.
1500 years later, Protestants decided to change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon. The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.
With love in Christ.
2006-08-06 14:58:38 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Catholic Church uses The Good News Bible. The King James version is not a Catholic one.
2006-08-06 08:21:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a Catholic Bible that is almost exactly King James version, with some extra books King James does not have. Catholics are Christian too.
2006-08-06 08:24:32 · answer #3 · answered by kritikos43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Douay-Rheims
I was born Catholic and went to Catholic school
In my bible I have more books than other Christians do, these are the additional books in mine:
Tobit
Judith
Esther - another ten verses and six more chapters
Wisdom
Ben Sira (Sirach) (Ecclesiasticus)
Baruch
Daniel - another two chapters
Letter of Jeremiah - Considered as part of Baruch in Roman Catholic Tradition
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
the wording is completely different than the KJV here is a website that has the verses side by side http://www.latinvulgate.com/
2006-08-06 08:23:05 · answer #4 · answered by Voodoo Doll 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Catholic Churches take their readings from the New American Bible or the New Revised Standard Bible.
The New American Bible can be found online at http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/
To check if it is a Catholic Bible, look for books such as Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, and Baruch)
2006-08-06 08:25:26 · answer #5 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I second the New American Bible, but that is for those who wish to read it in English.
2006-08-06 11:31:46 · answer #6 · answered by freemanbac 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ones with lots of ruels.
2006-08-06 08:32:48 · answer #7 · answered by Mel G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋