The books that are regarded as authoritative by Roman Catholics but not by Protestants are referred to as?

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the New Testament
the apocrypha
the apocalyptic works
the pseudepigrapha

Answer 1

I agree with a poster above: none of the above. They're called the "Deuterocanon".

Answer 2

the Apocrypha.

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

They are referred to by Protestants as the apocrypha, however that is incorrect. Apocryphal texts are those which were never part of the Bible, like the Gospels of Thomas and Philip. The 7 books contested by Protestants have been part of the Christian Bible from the beginning. Besides, Luther fully intended to trash 3 New Testament books as well, and was prevented from doing so only by the vehement objection of his own followers, so I see no reason to place any faith in his choices of Old Testament books to eliminate.

Answer 4

The Pseudepigrapha.

Answer 5

Yes, what New Catholic said. Deuterocanonical.

Answer 6

The apocrypha. They aren't spiritually inspired, but it can't hurt reading them.

Answer 7

None of the above. They are called deuterocanonical

Answer 8

wouldn't that be the apocrypha??

Answer 9

Heresy.

Answer 10

Catholics will believe anything if you say it in Latin, so I would say - all of the above.