My friend gave me a Christian bible but i have to take religion classes next year and i need to know what material i need to be reading in order to get the right concepts.
2007-06-29 18:09:35 · 16 answers · asked by T 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
*Is Catholic*
I do not know if you will be covering the Deuterocanonical books for the school. Those are the 7 books that the Protestant limited version of scripture is missing.
FYI: The NT and the Gospels quotes from these books.
Yes you should get a Catholic Bible because the notes are different in several key places. They will help you to understand scripture better.
If you are in grade school, just buy a Catholic Study Bible and you will be fine.
If you are just looking for a good Bible and do not need the notes, NAB is ok RSV-Catholic Edition is much better, Jerusalem Bible is also very good.
If you are in College there are several thicker version with expanded notes, but primarily you want to look for "biblical commentary" series rather than scripture. If you are in college, I will suggest some for you.
2007-06-30 14:08:20 · answer #1 · answered by Liet Kynes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible you have will be adequate for about 98% of the time. It is missing 7 books and small parts of a couple of other books that are included in the Catholic 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.
2007-07-03 23:21:26 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Bible is the Christian Bible, the only Bible used by every Christian on earth until a few hundred years ago. What you have is a Protestant Bible, which has 7 fewer books than the Christian Bible, but is pretty much the same otherwise.
2007-06-30 01:29:37 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you will need a Catholic Bible. Catholic Bibles contain the full canon of 46 Old Testament Books and 27 New Testament Books. There are other minor differences as well.
2007-07-02 11:18:11 · answer #4 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, get a Catholic bible. The Protestant bible (Christian) is missing books (years ago protestants took out books they didn't agree with).
2007-07-03 18:29:31 · answer #5 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not Catholic, but logic dictates asking your school administrators exactly which version of the Bible will they be using to teach from - then get it!
2007-07-06 07:08:21 · answer #6 · answered by bubbleheadyeoman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are part of the Christian religion, ya know...
The Bible you have will do, I'm sure.
2007-06-30 01:12:54 · answer #7 · answered by Lexi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The catholic bible has the Apocrypha and is much more interesting reading.
2007-07-07 18:54:20 · answer #8 · answered by gideon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will need a Catholic bible as there are several more books in it then the KJV. The book of Tobit, the Maccabees etc.
2007-06-30 01:14:39 · answer #9 · answered by Mariah 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The books that other writers mention are "historical" not inspired. Pass on getting a "Catholic" bible.
2007-06-30 01:19:02 · answer #10 · answered by nomad74 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋