Catholic Bible??

Question

okay, so I use the Protestant Bible (66 books; OT, NT). I would like to know...

1) what gospels other than Matt, Mark, Luke and John are in the Catholic Bible
2) are there also other books in the Catholic Bible besides the OT?
3) is there a book of priestly conduct?

thank you

Answer 1

1) None.
2) No.
3) Not in the Bible.

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 2

1. The gospels are Catholic. All the New Testament is Catholic. Around the year 400 a council of Catholic bishops met to decide what books are to be included in the Bible. That's why each of the 27 NT book are in the Bible the way it is.. Yes, the Protestants owe the Catholics big time for one. Why didn't the Protestants reexamine the ancient writings and decide for themselves which were inspired and which weren't? Answer: Because Protestantism wasn't invented until the 16th century and by that time they had over 1200 years of the New Testament.. The Protestants decided to keep the Bible the way it was based upon Tradition.

2. The Protestants removed 7 books from the Old Testament in the middle ages.. The Catholics just maintained the same Old Testament that Jesus and the Apostles used. It's the same Old Testament that the Orthodox Christians use, and the Coptic Christians, and the other Eastern Christians sects use... The Ethiopian Christians use a bible that uses even more books. (The Protestants used an Old Testament that some Jewish rabbis established as canon late in the first century - - after Jesus and the Apostles.)

3. Is there a book of priestly conduct? Not that I know of. There are rules, disciplines, etc. that are established through decisions of councils (like celibacy). And there are different clerical orders that have their own published rules of order.

Answer 3

There are only four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The Roman Catholic Bible contains 7 books and additions to Esther and Daniel known as the apocrypha or deuterocanonical texts.

1. Tobit
2. Judith
3. Additions to Esther (Vulgate Esther 10:4-16:24, but see also Esther in the NAB)
4. Wisdom
5. Ben Sira, also called Sirach or Ecclesiasticus
6. Baruch, including the Letter of Jeremiah (Additions to Jeremiah in the Septuagint[2])
7. Additions to Daniel:
a. Song of the Three Children (Vulgate Daniel 3:24-90)
b. Story of Susanna (Vulgate Daniel 13, Septuagint prologue)
c. The Idol Bel and the Dragon (Vulgate Daniel 14, Septuagint epilogue)
8. 1 Maccabees
9. 2 Maccabees

I believe the Eastern Orthodox Church also has a different Cannon.

I have not heard (I’m not Catholic so I don’t know) about a book of priestly conduct.

Answer 4

Pastor Billy says: the Protestant and Catholics only differ on the OT books. All Protestant bibles contain a Roman Catholic NT canon and one version of a Jewish OT canon.

biblestudent07 speaks in a matter of fact tone, I suggest he study the Ethiopian Judaic canon. He'll then discover not all Jewish canon is alike or matches the Protestant version.

Catholics use an NT canon based more on the Septuagint an Old Testament written by Jewish scribes in Alexandria in the Greek language some 250 BC. They use this version because the entire region had been Hellenised (just as the bible explains) from Egypt to Asia Minor including Judah, Syria and all the Holy Land by the time of Jesus Christ. This means the people spoke and used Greek in everyday life including the Jews and scholars today now know that out of the 300-350 times the OT is quoted in the NT the majority are coming from the Septuagint version hence the apostles and Christ preferred or use this version of the scriptures most often. The Protestant OT used today relies on copies of the Jewish canon from the 9th century called the Massoratic Text.
This canon of books was established by a Jewish council circa 110AD long after Christianity had separated itself from Judaism and become independent from it.

and so to answer your questions

1) there are no other gospels than the 4 in your bible.
2) the Catholic bible contains an OT and NT just like your bible any additional books relate to the OT only and can be understood when you examine the history of the Septuagint text.
3) is there a book of priestly conduct? why yes just like your bible the Catholic bible contains the pastoral letters of 1Timothy and 2Timothy which are instructions from Paul to Timonthy.

Answer 5

There are no other gospels in the Catholic Bible besides the original four. There are several OT books which are not included in the Protestant versions:

Judith, Tobias, Wisdom, Eccesiasticus, Baruch, 1st and 2nd Maccabees, and Sirach.

There are also additional verses and passages in some of books of the OT. To the best of my knowledge, there is no book of priestly conduct as such, although Sirach and Eccesiasticus have admonitions to various groups on correct behavior.

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

http://catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0134.html

this site covers the differences.

http://www.drbo.org/ this is a popular translation if you are interested. the first site has alot of articles about this and other topics you may be interested in. the catholic and protestant new testament is the same,except martin luther added the word alone into the book of romans. i am not sure about a book of priestly conduct,i would imagine there is something along those lines but it is seperate from the bible. a book of interest is "a catholic guide to the bible" by father oscar lukefahr,c.m you might be able to find a copy on line. for those that say the books are not important, jesus quoted from the deleted books around 300 times.

Answer 7

1. The NT is the same...........of course it has the 4 gospels

2. In the OT are the seven
Deutero-Canonical books, missing from non-Catholic Bibles.

3. Even non-Catholic Bible has priestly conduct ! But your question seems to be referring to priests of the Catholic faith.

You can read the Catholic Bible on-line to answer your questions.



Latin Vulgate
Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible

http://www.drbo.org/

Answer 8

1) There are only the four gospels in the Catholic bible: Matt, Mark, Luke and John.

2) I'm not sure but I think Catholics have the same NT as the Protestants.

3) Don't know.

God bless.

Answer 9

There are no other gospels in the Catholic Bible

There are some deutero-canonical or apocryphal books if you like that Catholics believe are Scripture They are Tobit, Judith, some partsof Daniel and Esther; Wisdom, Sirach,
1+2 Maccabees Baruch

not found in the Bible but there would be a code of conduct that they eould or should follow.

Answer 10

The Catholic and Protestant New Testaments are the same.

There are several books in the Old Testament which are in the Catholic and not the Protestant:

Tobit, Judith, the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach), Baruch, I & II Maccabees. Also, Esther and Daniel are longer. They are not grouped together in the Catholic Bible, they are interspersed with the others. The Protestants call them the "Apocrypha", the Catholics call them the "Deuterocanon". Psalms are also slightly renumbered (there is an additional one, but in the Catholic Bible, two of them are merged into one).

One argument against their inclusion is invalid: that they were written in Greek. Scholars now have older copies of all of them in Hebrew.