How many books in total are in the Roman Catholic Bible?

Answer 1

73.

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 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.

Answer 2

There are a total of 73 canonical books of the Sacred Scriptures.

Old Testament
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Josue
Judges
Ruth
1 Kings
2 Kings
3 Kings
4 Kings
1 Paralipomenon
2 Paralipomenon
1 Esdras
2 Esdras
Tobias *
Judith *
Esther
Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Canticles
Wisdom *
Ecclesiasticus *
Isaias
Jeremias
Lamentations
Baruch *
Ezechiel
Daniel
Osee
Joel
Amos
Abdias
Jonas
Micheas
Nahum
Habacuc
Sophonias
Aggeus
Zacharias
Malachias
1 Machabees *
2 Machabees *

* The seven
Deutero-Canonical books, missing from non-Catholic Bibles.

New Testament
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Acts of Apostles
Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude
Apocalypse

Answer 3

A total of 73 books in the Catholic and Orthodox Bibles and my KJV Bible is 66.

There are 14 main books not included in the Canon of Scripture that are regarded by some cults such as the Roman Catholics as inspired. If the Apocrypha is considered to be inspired Scripture, this identifies error with God's word.

The 14 book of Apocrypha were formally canonized by the Roman Catholic Church on April 8, 1546 A.D. at the Council of Trent. They asserted that the apocryphal books together with unwritten tradition are of God and are to be received and venerated as the Word of God. The answer becomes obvious when we learn the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church which stand or fall by these Apocrypha writings alone. The Apocrypha is a collection of several pagan writings which the Catholic church accepts as inspired Scripture.

Catholics will tell you, You People are missing part of the Bible. We have the rest of it. Now you have the Bible, the Apocrypha and Catholic Tradition as co-equal sources of truth for the Catholic. l4 Apocryphal books are in Greek, except one which is extant only in Latin. Not one of the apocryphal books is written in the Hebrew language.

The Canon of Scripture has been closed, and there is no need of additions to the word of God. Any new revelation or addition to God's word is not of God, because the last book of the Bible forbids any additions to itself. Rev. 22:18

The Apocrypha books has everything to do with the will of men in justifying their "Catholic Church traditions."

Answer 4

THE OLD TESTAMENT
(Douay, A.D. 1609)
THE PENTATEUCH BOOKS

Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
THE HISTORICAL BOOKS

Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Tobit
Judith
Esther
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees

BOOKS OF WISDOM AND POETRY

Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Wisdom of Solomon
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)

THE PROPHETICAL BOOKS

Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Baruch
Ezekiel
Daniel
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zachariah
Malachi

46 books

THE NEW TESTAMENT
(Rheims, A.D. 1582.)

GOSPEL BOOKS

St. Matthew*
St. Mark *
St. Luke *
St. John *
HISTORICAL BOOK

The Acts of
the Apostles *

PAULINE AND OTHER LETTERS

Romans
1 Corinthians *
2 Corinthians *
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews

CATHOLIC LETTERS

James
1 Peter
2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude

APOCALYPSE BOOK

The Apocalypse of St. John: (Also known as the Book of Revelation.)*
27 books

Answer 5

Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Prayer of Manasseh
1 Esdras
2 Esdras
Ezra
Nehemiah
Tobit
Judith
Esther (with insertions)*
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees


Job
Psalms


Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Songs
Wisdom of Solomon
Ecclesiasticus

Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Baruch
Epistle of Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Daniel (with insertions)**
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi

Answer 6

10

Answer 7

72 - because of the inclusion of the Deuterocanonical Books.

Answer 8

You mean in the version which was distributed, or including the books in the vault?

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Answer 9

66 the same as ares

Answer 10

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