how many books in a catholic bible?

Answer 1

same as the full protestant kind, dilweed.

Answer 2

The Holy Bible was compiled once and for all time by the bishops of the Holy Catholic Church at the Council of Carthage in 397 AD. This Council considered over 150 writings from New Testament times for inclusion in the Bible, and finally approved only 27 such texts. The same Council approved 46 Old Testament writings. These two groups of approved writings constitute the 73 inspired books of the written Word of God, the Holy Bible. The only possible way anyone can know what is the written Word of God and what is not is by the infallible, spirit-led decisions of this Council. Every Bible produced in the world during the following 1,000+ years contained exactly these same 73 inspired books. It was not until the 16'th century that Martin Luther decided to throw out 10 books of the Word of God - 7 Old Testament books and 3 New Testamant books - because they did not support the new doctrines he was introducing into Christianity. Fortunately, his followers would not hear of throwing out the writings of the Apostles themselves, and were on the verge of rebellion, so Luther backed down and left the New Testament intact. But he still succeeded in trashing 7 Old Testament books of God's Holy Word. As a result of that ungodly act, the Protestant Bible is incomplete, containing only 66 books. If their founder had gotten his way, they would have only 63 books. However, the true and complete Bible of 73 inspired books still remains in the Church Christ founded for all mankind, the Church to which God gave the Scriptures, the Church which alone compiled the Holy Bible for its own use, and which alone has the authority to accurately interpret its own writings, the Holy Catholic Church.
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Answer 3

73 books. The difference between a "Catholic" bible and a "Protestant" bible has to do with seven books in the Old Testament that existed before Christ even came.

1000-50 BC: The Old Testament (hereafter "OT") books are written.
C. 200 BC: Rabbis translate the OT from Hebrew to Greek, a translation called the "Septuagint" (abbreviation: "LXX"). The LXX ultimately includes 46 books.
AD 30-100: Christians use the LXX as their scriptures. This upsets the Jews.
C. AD 100: So Jewish rabbis meet at the Council of Jamniah and decide to include in their canon only 39 books, since only these can be found in Hebrew.
C. AD 400: Jerome translates the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (called the "Vulgate"). He knows that the Jews have only 39 books, and he wants to limit the OT to these; the 7 he would leave out (Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach [or "Ecclesiasticus"], and Baruch--he calls "apocrypha," that is, "hidden books." But Pope Damasus wants all 46 traditionally-used books included in the OT, so the Vulgate has 46.
AD 1536: Luther translates the Bible from Hebrew and Greek to German. He assumes that, since Jews wrote the Old Testament, theirs is the correct canon; he puts the extra 7 books in an appendix that he calls the "Apocrypha."
AD 1546: The Catholic Council of Trent reaffirms the canonicity of all 46 books.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

1. How many books does the Old Testament contain?
It contains from forty-five to forty-seven books, depending on how the books are divided.

2. Into how many classes may these books be divided?
Three.

3. Name these classes.
Didactic or Doctrinal, Historical, and Prophetic books.

1. How many books are there in the New Testament?
There are twenty-seven books in the New Testament.

Answer 6

there are seven additional books in the catholic bible than the protestant bible... some of their names are
the book of tobias
the book of judith
the book of baruch. etc
the total number comes to 74. but the majority of the world uses the protestant bible versions as king james version or RSV