Does the Catholic Bible differ from the St James?

Question

Does the book of Ecclesiastes have more than 12 chapters in the Catholic bible?

So would there be more chapters in the book of Ecclesiastes?

Now don't get pedantic! I want to know if the book of Ecclesiastes has more chapters in it in the Catholic Bible than the St James Version??? OK?

Answer 1

>>I want to know if the book of Ecclesiastes has more chapters in it in the Catholic Bible than the St James Version??? OK?<<

If you mean the King James, the answer is no. There are 12 chapters in each:
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_INDEX.HTM
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=2546945

That being said, I saw what your wrote in response to http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Avzwt9JRYDoqQ8gsArrzAlnsy6IX?qid=20070414110443AAc6OaO
You are confusing Ecclesiastes with Ecclesiasticus (also known as Sirach). Here is the KJV translation of Ecclesiasticus: http://www.biblicalproportions.com/modules/ol_bible/King_James_Bible/Ecclesiasticus/
If you read chapter 22, you will see that thariq_s2004 seriously misrepresented what it actually says:
http://www.biblicalproportions.com/modules/ol_bible/King_James_Bible/Ecclesiasticus/22/


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Ross A wrote, "At the time, the Roman Church forbade using anything but the Vulgate Latin version made by St. Jerome"

False! The Douay-Rheims predates the KJV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douay-Rheims

Answer 2

Pastor Billy says: NO Catholic bibles all have 12 chapters for the book of Ecclesiastes. (Ecclesiasticus cath.) Many of those responding are confusing bible editions with one book of the bible, with the exception of Meg who does know her bible.

Meg is 100% correct when explaining Catholics were using a English translation (Douay Rheims edition) before the King James bible had been completed by Protestants.

Contrary to what some responding would like you to believe no pope or the Catholic Church has ever prohibited or forbidden anyone from reading the bible. What the Church has done is to instruct the faithful not to read heretical texts which lead to confusion on what the Christian faith is or how it is practiced. There have been written bibles which aren't Christian in origin because of certain missing text and/or a transliteration used to deny what always was believed through the interpretation of it.

Answer 3

King James is a translation. The Catholic Bible has a few more books and chapters than the Protestant Bible.

Answer 4

Does the book of Ecclesiastes have more than 12 chapters in the Catholic bible?


No, it has 12.
You can read the New American Bible, the translation used in liturgies in the Catholic Church in the US at http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/

Answer 5

There is no St. James Bible. The version you would seem to be referring to is the King James or Authorised Standard Version, a translation into 17th-century English made under the patronage of King James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England.

The scholars who did that translation went to the earliest Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the Bible that they could find, and rendered them into the English current in their time.

At the time, the Roman Church forbade using anything but the Vulgate Latin version made by St. Jerome; the King James version was made for the English and Scottish Protestants. There is now a version of the Bible in English for Catholics, it is if I remember correctly a translation from the Latin, not directly from the Greek etc.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

12 is 12, but there are MAJOR problems with the Catholic Bible. At one point the Bible was not allowed to be read by Pope Innocent III !!! Of course he was also the "Bloodiest" of all Popes as well. I would strongly suggest reading a good History of the Church especially if U like Horror Stories! The Catholic Church has, as another Post stated, twisted Scripture to meet their needs under "Papal Infalibility" self proclaimed by Pope Innocent III, who else!!! LOL John

Answer 8

Even I know that Catholics use the Vulgate edition and the Protestants the King James edition. As for the differences between them, I couldn't care less.

Answer 9

can I ask what you mean by st James ?? if you mean the king James bible I suspect it does but even that is on old english not easy to read.

Answer 10

It's the "king james". Yes it does differ.The Catholics have added 7 more books called the apocrypha.

They did it to justify purgatory and make cash from "indulgences".

The Jews have never added these books to their writings and this is where Protestants and catholics get our scripts from.