what's the difference between a catholic bible and a christian bible?

Question

How many books are different? and which ones? What does the books only found in the catholic bible say?

Answer 1

The Christian bible are has 2 part the old and new testaments the old testaments has 39 books while the new testaments has 27 books.
The version of the catholic bible has add some books called the Apocrypha and these are; 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, Baruch Tobit, and Judith. the catholic bible has 49 books in the old testaments called the Septuagint, which is not included in the original manuscripts

Answer 2

Very briefly, this is what's in the "Catholic" books:

Tobit - A story of a young man collecting a debt for his blind father and a woman demonically cursed to be a widow seven times over. Both are helped out by a disguised archangel.

Judith - When the city is beseiged by an invading army, only one citizen, a devout woman, is ready to take action.

Additions to Esther - These are the prayers left out of the original. Without them, God wouldn't even be mentioned in the book.

Wisdom of Solomon - More proverbs.

Sirach (aka Eccleiasticus) - A discourse on Wisdom and its application in life.

Baruch - Some narrative about the aftermath of the Babylonian Exile and some prophecies from Jeremiah's secretary. The final chapter is an encouraging letter from Jeremiah himself.

Additions to Daniel - A psalm-like prayer by the three young men in the furnace is added to chapter 3. Two religious detective stories are added to the end. In one, Daniel exposes a consiracy by two elders to ruin a young woman's reputation. In the other, Daniel reveals a deception by the priests of a false god.

1 Maccabees - A narrative of the early years of the war to eject the armies of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV and free the Jews to live and worship as they should. Judas Maccabeus and the other sons of Matthias led the guerilla war against their Greek oppressors. The feast of Hannukah commemorates this event.

2 Maccabees - A more pious rendering of the story of the Maccabean revolt, focusing on the spiritual defiance of the people toward their foreign rulers, even in the face of torture and death.

These books appeared in the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible around 250 BCE. They were not accepted by the Jewish council of 90 CE because no Hebrew versions of the books could be found. But Christians weren't at that council to reject them and their Bible WAS the Septuagint.

At the end of the 4th Century CE, Jerome, the translator of the Latin Vulgate, became reaquainted with the problem and decided to put the Greek books and portions in a separate section with a note about the language problem. It didn't really come up again until the 16th Century when Martin Luther was formulating his theology. It was important for him to eliminate any hint of intercessory action, and there were some problems for him in the Apocrypha.

These books were written at a time between testaments when new ideas were forming in Judaism, ideas like how God can be just if the good die young and the evil die rich. Or what the specific duties of angels were. Like any Christian, Luther was happy to accept their developing idea of an afterlife, but he wasn't pleased with the implications of a story in 2 Maccabees, in which a Jewish commander ordered prayers and sacrifice on behalf of a squadron of Jewish soldiers who had died wearing the medallion of a false god. Prayers for the dead didn't fit his model, so he rejected the lot. (Naturally this made the Roman Church embrace them all the more.)

Answer 3

The Catholic and Protestant bibles differ because of the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testement. Basically the Catholic Bible contains books that were widely accepting as part of the bible at the time of Chirst, but were removed from the Jewish canon around 90AD due to being heavily messianic prophecies. These books were either written in Greek originally or lacked evidence that they were originally Hebrew. The books are 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Judit, Baruch, Sirach, and parts of Daniel.
There are some parts of these books that were quoted by New Testment writers. For instance James 1:19 "Be quick to listen, slow to speak." is very similar to Sirach 5:11 "Be swift in listening, but slow in answering.

These additional Old Testment books are also found in the bible used by the Orthodox Churches as well.

Answer 4

Here is a link to the Catholic Bible http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Wisdom
Sirach
Baruch.

Those are the books different then the Christian Bible.
They have different books to the bible then the Christian bible does.
46 books in their old testament/ 28 books in their new testament.

In the Christian Bible there are 66 books. There are 39 books in the Old Testament/ 27 books in the New Testament. http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/index.php?action=getVersionInfo&vid=31#books&version=31;

So there are 5 books that are seperate, from doing research myself. These are the books that are in the catholic bible that are "Not" in the Christian bible. They are in the old testament part of their bible. I didn't see any other different ones that they had in their New testament.

Answer 5

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 6

first of all, the catholic bible is ALSO a christian bible. you probably meant to ask about the differences between catholic and PROTESTANT bibles.

as for the differences, the catholic bible has seven more books in its old testament (as well as a longer book of daniel and esther).

here are the names of the books the protestant bible is missing:

Tobit
Judith
Wisdom
Ben Sira, also called Sirach or Ecclesiasticus
Baruch, including the Letter of Jeremiah (Additions to Jeremiah in the Septuagint[2])

1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees

as for what they say.... there is not enough space here to answer that question

Answer 7

Presumably you mean a Catholic Bible and Protestant Bibles, since Roman Catholics are Christians.

There are seven Deutero-Canonical books that are generally missing from non-Catholic Bibles: Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and First and Second Maccabees, as well as parts of two other books (Esther 10:4-16:24, and Daniel 3:24-90; 13:1-14:42) which are not found in the Jewish Tanakh (what Christians call the Old Testament).

Answer 8

The Catholic Bible is the original (see Gutenburg Bible). Catholics are often accused of NOT following the "bible" by a bunch of born again/history re-writing wannabes. It was Gutenburg who INVENTED THE PRINTING PRESS, who copied the first bible. The Vatican has two copies I believe. Of course all the Protestants have been taught differently, and they'll argue the point. Just look it up.

Protestants are just that..protesters. If they don't like what their church is preaching, they protest and go out and start a new church. Just check out the southern baptist churches..there are hundreds of them and they all preach different things. They have black congregations preaching hate against white people, white congregations preaching against black people, but they damn sure are all baptist. Of course they do agree on one group to hate, and that's the Catholics.

Now that we're on the subject, when are the black southern baptist churchs going to honor all the catholic priests, nuns and other catholics who marched with Rev. King? HMMMMMM? They are awful silent about all the Catholics, Jews and other white folks who REALLY opened up the doors for civil rights. Gee even Bill Clinton, and Al Gore's heros voted against the civil rights bill. (see Sen Gore's daddies vote, and Orval Faubaus of Arkansas, Bill Clinton's hero).

Answer 9

Okay, a 'Catholic Bible' is a Christian Bible ... but the Catholics use a 'different' translation ... in our city we use the 'New American' Bible translation, and it comes with the 'apocrypha' in the 'regular pages of the book' in the order they 'originally came in the first 'bible' written ... and I'm going to let you 'research' to find out what 'apocrypha' means and what the 'names' of those books are ...

Answer 10

The bible is the bible. There is no difference, only the interpretation is different between Catholic and Protestant.