the catholic bible consists of how many books?

Answer 1

73.

Old Testament = 46 Books

1. Genesis
2. Exodus
3. Leviticus
4. Numbers
5. Deuteronomy
6. Joshua
7. Judges
8. Ruth
9. 1 Samuel
10. 2 Samuel
11. 1 Kings
12. 2 Kings
13. 1 Chronicles
14. 2 Chronicles
15. Ezra
16. Nehemiah
17. Tobit
18. Judith
19. Esther
20. 1 Maccabees
21. 2 Maccabees
22. Job
23. Psalms
24. Proverbs
25. Ecclesiastes
26. Song of Songs
27. Wisdom
28. Sirach
29. Isaiah
30. Jeremiah
31. Lamentations
32. Baruch
33. Ezekiel
34. Daniel
35. Hosea
36. Joel
37. Amos
38. Obadiah
39. Jonah
40. Micah
41. Nahum
42. Habakkuk
43. Zephaniah
44. Haggai
45. Zechariah
46. Malachi

New Testament = 27 Books

1. Matthew
2. Mark
3. Luke
4. John
5. Acts
6. Romans
7. 1 Corinthians
8. 2 Corinthians
9. Galatians
10. Ephesians
11. Philippians
12. Colossians
13. 1 Thessalonians
14. 2 Thessalonians
15. 1 Timothy
16. 2 Timothy
17. Titus
18. Philemon
19. Hebrews
20. James
21. 1 Peter
22. 2 Peter
23. 1 John
24. 2 John
25. 3 John
26. Jude
27. Revelation

46 + 27 = 73 Books total.

For more information, see the New American Bible: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/

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.

Answer 2

THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE
(From the Catechism of the Catholic Church)

120 It was by the apostolic Tradition that the Church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books.90 This complete list is called the canon of Scripture. It includes 46 books for the Old Testament (45 if we count Jeremiah and Lamentations as one) and 27 for the New.91
The Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zachariah and Malachi.
The New Testament: the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the Acts of the Apostles, the Letters of St. Paul to the Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, the Letter to the Hebrews, the Letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2 and 3 John, and Jude, and Revelation (the Apocalypse).

Answer 3

The Catholic Bible has the Apocrypha.
There are 14 books that are found in the 1611 edition of the King James Bible that are missing from the later versions, WHY?
Like the Name of the Creator the English translators took it upon themself to tell us what we should read and believe.
I would strongly suggest that if you want to know the truth about your Bible you research who, what, when, and how it came to be the holy book you think it is.

Here is a great place to start.

http://www.yahweh/bookofyahweh.com


Obadhawk

Answer 4

--is Catholic--

72 or 71 depending on how you count. The difference is that the Catholics use the scriptures of Jesus' time, which include the Greek Books, while the Protestant use the Hebrew only canon of c.a. 90 ad.

Often you will see non-Catholic books say "With Apocrypha"

There are TWO different understandings of the term Apocrypha.

1. Protestants use Apocrypha to refer to the deutercanonical books. The deutercanonical books are books written in Greek during the dispersion of the Jews. They were accepted scriptural books in ancient Judaism, though there were groups that did not accept them. At the time of Jesus, the texts were in fact used and were known by Jewish teachers (as evidenced by their usage in the Gospels)

2. Catholics and Orthodox, who accept the deutercanonical books as the inerrant and inspired word of God, use Apocrypha to refer to those writings not within the scope of Jewish/Christian tradition. This is a distinct catagory from Jewish/Christian writings that are not scriptural. These include books written in both pre and post Christ. They are typically fictious works by heretics or groups masquerading as Jews/Christians. Here is a good article that goes through several of those books. These books, both Catholics and Protestants can agree, are not a part of the canon or the tradition of the faith. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01601a.htm

The Protestants REMOVED books from the canon of scripture. Luther had issues with certain verses in the deutercanonical books (those OT books in Greek) so he decided to use the Hebrew canon which did not include those books. It is important to note that the Hebrew only canon was canonized in ca 90ad as a response to Christians using the OT. It was done to distinguish Judaism as HEBREW only, exclusive, and not at all about the Greco-Romans (which were starting to be the dominant group in the early Church). The Greek translations of scripture, including the Greek only books, as a whole, because they are not missing centuries of Jewish though and revelation, more clearly point to Jesus being the messiah than does the older Hebrew only texts. In addition the early Christians used the Greek scriptures. The Gospels themselves use the Greek texts. See for yourself here:
http://www.scripturecatholic.com/septuagint.html
http://www.scripturecatholic.com/deuterocanon.html


ANYBODY who says that the early Christians didn't know what books were scripture and which were not, or that they didn't have a very narrow list of which books, has never read anything on the subject. As Protestant church historian J. N. D. Kelly writes, "It should be observed that the Old Testament thus admitted as authoritative in the Church was somewhat bulkier and more comprehensive [than the Protestant Bible]. . . . It always included... the deutercanonical books" (Early Christian Doctrines, 53).

Pope Innocent I wrote "A brief addition shows what books really are received in the canon. These are the things of which you desired to be informed verbally: of Moses, five books, that is, of Genesis, of Exodus, of Leviticus, of Numbers, of Deuteronomy, and Joshua, of Judges, one book, of Kings, four books, and also Ruth, of the prophets, sixteen books, of Solomon, five books, the Psalms. Likewise of the histories, Job, one book, of Tobit, one book, Esther, one, Judith, one, of the Maccabees, two, of Esdras, two, Paralipomenon, two books . . ." (Letters 7 [A.D. 408]).

Let me deal with two more false claims made against the canon of Scripture as held by Catholics.

Claim: Jerome didn't accept the Greek books in his compilation of the Latin Vulgate using instead the Hebrew only canon.
Rebuttal: This is a half-truth. Protestant's do not read further in St. Jerome's works than this statement. While it is true that St. Jerome ORIGIONALY went with only the Hebrew, he was over-ruled by the Church of the East and West to which he gladly accepted and concurred with their judgment that the Greek books belonged to the canon (cf. any good life of Jerome as well as "The Building of Christendom" by Carroll.)

Claim: Trent declared the canon...Trent ...did...it.
Rebuttal: People do not understand what an Ecumenical Council does. It has no power to change or otherwise invent doctrine. All the bibles prior to Trent had the Greek books, and those books were used in the liturgy of the Church. Trent only upholds what has always been in the Bible and rejects those who try to take books out of the Bible and do harm to the inspired world of God.

Answer 5

It's been a long time, but I think 72

Answer 6

the catholic bible is the same of protestant one