I have heard that the catholic bible has more books than a protastant bible?

Question

I know i spelled it wrong but what are the different books?

Answer 1

Tobit
Judith
Wisdom
Ecclesiasticus
Baruch
First and Second Maccabees

These books were in the Christian Bible up until the 1500s
when the Protestant Reformers removed them.

Jill, the Song of Songs is in the Catholic Bible - http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/index.htm

Answer 2

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 3

The 'extra books' are called 'The Apocrypha' ... these are books that are believed to be 'all story' with little 'fact' and are 'included' only because they illustrate 'good Christian life' in some way, even though they are all part of the Old Testament. The names of The Apocrypha are: Tobit, Judith, Esther, both Books of Maccabees, Baruch, the Book of Wisdom, and the Book of Ecclesiasticus. If you want to read them, I suggest you get a copy of the Jerusalem Bible, which is 'the best translation' of the Bible that was done 'ecclesiastically' (by people from all religions, including Judaism). It's expensive, but 'worth the money' ... and I'll 'forgive you' for your misspelling the word Protestant, and for not 'capitalizing' Catholic. Both these are the 'names' given to churches and are capitalized out of 'respect' ...

Answer 4

Sorry, Emily - you are incorrect.

The books missing from Protestant Bibles are: Tobit, Judith, Baruch, Wisdom, Sirach, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and parts of Esther and Daniel.

Martin Luther, without any authority whatsoever, removed those seven books and placed them in an appendix during the reformation. They remained in the appendix of Protestant Bibles until about 1826, and then they were removed altogether.

Hellenistic Greek was the language of the day during the time of Christ. This was due to the fact that Alexander the Great had conquered the region several hundred years before. The Hebrew language was on its way out, and there was a critical need for a translation of the Hebrew Old Testament for dispersed Greek speaking Jews. This translation, called the Septuagint, or LXX, was completed by Jewish scholars in about 148 B.C. and it had all of the books, including the seven removed by Martin Luther over 1650 years later. The New Testament has about 350 references to Old Testament verses. By careful examination, scholars have determined that 300 of these are from the Septuagint and the rest are from the Hebrew Old Testament. They have shown that Jesus Christ Himself, quoted from the Septuagint. Early Christians used the Septuagint to support Christian teachings.

About 90-95 A.D., or several decades after the beginning of Christianity, the Jews called a council to deal with the matter. In this council, called the "Council of Jamnia", Jewish Pharisees, who survived the devastating destruction of Jerusalem and of their temple in 70 A.D., decided to remove books that were helpful to Christians. They removed the seven books, using various reasons as their "authorization" to do so. Keep in mind, that the Greek speaking Jews had been using the Septuagint for well over two centuries by this time. It was the Bible of the Greek speaking "Bereans" of Acts 17:10-15 for which Protestants like to quote to try to "prove" their false man-made doctrine of "Sola Scriptura".

Some non-Catholics charge that the seven books were not added to the Septuagint until the fourth century. If that were true, how could the Council of Jamnia have removed them in the first century if they were not there?

Answer 5

In the year 1529 Martin Luther removed 7 books from the Bible. The include Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch. He wanted to remove more, but he had no arguement for doing so.

God bless,
Stanbo

Jill, Song of Songs is in my Bible.

Emily (below), you are incorrect. It was Martin Luther who removed the books from the Bible. They were in the Bible up until 1529.

Answer 6

I don't know but I do remember reading about the King James English verson bible. The Church didn't want it printed in english. This guy did it and they killed him in a most horrible death. To stop the blood shed the king authorized an english verson to be written. Later they found the Catholic Church added books to further their beliefs that were not found in ancient manuscrips. So the KJV didn't add those books because they were written by the catholic church.
Later they made some better versions of the english bible.
But the KJV is still a good bible and lets us know that some words have changed meanings from when it was written.
such as the the's and thou's and A shambles in those days was a meat market.
Also one classic example is Matthew 5:3 Blessed is the poor in spirit for their's is the kingdom of heaven.
Why would the poor in spirit go to heaven?
The new English version says Matthew 5:3 Happy are those conscience of their spiritual need for the kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.
there is a lot of things like that.
The Catholic bible has been changed and they accuse everyone else of changing the bible but it is in fact them that have changed the bible to suit their beliefs.

Answer 7

I don't remember what they are but after I done research I found out they wrote them to sound like the original but changed the meaning to go against the rest of the bible.

I had one and it is the only bible I ever threw away. ( a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump)

It kinda reads the same in those books but it contrary to the rest of the bible. But it's very subtle how it goes about it.

Answer 8

That may be true, but the catholic bible has stayed the same. Catholics do not follow strictly after the bible as protestants do, it is used as a means of helping people to live a good life.

Answer 9

Good luck finding Song of Songs in any bible.

Answer 10

They are indeed different Bibles.

A very good description of why they differ is here:

http://www.catholicherald.com/saunders/98ws/ws981126.htm