What are the seven extra books in the Catholic bible?

Answer 1

Protestant answerThey are called Bible Apocrypha, or deuterocanonical by Catholics.

They are ancient writings that were not accepted into the Bible canon. They were not able to be validated as "inspired by God".

Some have very informative historical information.

For more information, see attached links.

Catholic answerThere are no "extra" books in the Bible, the Old Testament is the same as the Bible that the Jews used for five centuries, it was translated into Greek in the fourth century B.C. as the Septuagint, was used by Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ. Most of the quotes in the New Testament are from the Septuagint. The New Testament was composed by the Catholic Church under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and, guided by that same Spirit, was put together as the New Testament in the late fourth century A.D. Twelve centuries later, Martin Luther trashed the Deuterocanical books of the Old and New Testaments. The other protestant "reformers" would not stand for the latter and replaced the deuterocanonicals in the New Testament, they also replaced the deuterocanonicals of the Old Testament but in a separate sections. Centuries later, other protestants removed them and started to call them "apocrypha" which they have never been. Apocrypha writings pretend to be Sacred Scripture but have never been accepted by Christ's Church. The Deuterocanonicals are every bit as canonical as the rest of the Bible. Modern day protestants, not knowing their history, refer to them as "apocrypha" not realizing that they have been part of the canon since the fourth century before Christ, and are frequently referred to by Christ. They are called the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. Please note, at the fifth link below, the Deutercanonical books in the New Testament, that link takes you to a page which lists all the references to the Deuterocanonical books that are given in the New Testament proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jesus Christ used and referenced the Deuterocanon frequently.

Answer 2

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The additional books were in the Septuagint, a Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures used in the Jewish diaspora but apparently never recognised as inspired by the Palestinian Jews. Christianity actually uses the Septuagint, not the original Hebrew scriptures, as its basis. However, even the Catholic Church considers these books to be 'deuterocanonical' placing them on a lower ('second') level than the canonical books.

After the Reformation, most Protestant Churches removed these additional books from their canon, because they were not part of the Hebrew scriptures and, in some cases, because they are simply too imaginative.

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Catholic Answer

The simple answer is that there are not seven "extra" books in the Catholic Bible. The books you are referring to are called the Deuterocanon, which simply means second canon. These books are every bit as inspired as the proto-canon, they were just accepted later. There are Deuterocanonical books in the New Testament, such as the Letter of St. James, and the Apocalypse (known to protestants as Revelation), and others, but they are every bit as much "canonical" as the proto-canon of the New Testament. The seven books to which you are referring were in the Bible that was accepted by most Jews, including (most importantly for our purposes) Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, and His disciples. There were many factions of Jews at that time, many of them rejected portions of the Old Testament, for instance, the Sadducees accepted NOTHING but the first five books of the Bible (the Torah). The Bible that Our Blessed Lord used, and, of course, the Christian Church accepted and HAS ALWAYS USED, was the Septuagint, which had all the books of the Old Testament. 100 years after Our Blessed Lord walked this earth and left it, the Jews came together and agreed on a canon that excluded the books which contained specifically Christian teachings. But, of course, these were the Jews who rejected Our Blessed Lord, the Jews who accepted Our Blessed Lord and became Christian continued to use the Septuagint.

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For the complete story, see the link below at EWTN.

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As you probably know, Catholic Bibles have 73 books, 46 in the Old Testament, and 27 in the New Testament. Protestant Bibles have 66 books with only 39 in the Old Testament. The books missing from Protestant Bibles are: Tobit, Judith, Baruch, Wisdom, Sirach, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and parts of Esther and Daniel. They are called the 'Deuterocanonicals' by Catholics and 'Apocrypha' by Protestants. 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.

Please be mindful of the fact that those seven books had been in Bibles used by all Christians from the very foundation of Christianity.

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Martin Luther, when founding his own Church 1500 years later, removed the Deuterocanonicals for the same reason that the Jews did, because they supported Christianity, and he was founding his own Church with his own ideas and could not have these in his Bible.

Answer:

The question may be referring to the "Apocrypha" which are 14 books. There have been other ones in the course of history...but 'Halley's Bible Handbook' says this about the "Apocrypha":

"The Apocrypha

This is the name usually given to the 14 books contained in some Bibles between the Old and New Testaments. They originated in the 1st to 3rd centuries B.C., mostly of uncertain authorship, and were added to the Septuagint, which was the Greek translation of the Old Testament made in that period. They were not in the Hebrew Old Testament. They were written after Old Testament prophecy, oracles and direct revelation had ceased. Josephus rejected them as a whole. They were never recognized by the Jews as part of the Hebrew Scriptures. They were never quoted by Jesus, nor anywhere in the New Testament. They were not recognized by the Early Church as of canonical authority, nor as of divine inspiration. When the Bible was translated into Latin in the 2nd century A.D., its Old Testament was translated, not from the Hebrew Old Testament, but from the Greek Septuagint version of the Old Testament. From the Septuagint these Apocryphal books were carried over into the Latin translation; and from thence into the Latin Vulgate, which became the common version in Western Europe till the time of the Reformation. Protestants, basing their movement on the Divine Authority of God's Word, at once rejected these Apocryphal books as being no part of God's Word, as the Early Church and ancient Hebrews had done. Then the Roman Catholic Church in the council of Trent, A.D. 1646, which was held to stop the Protestant movement, declared these books to be canonical, and they are still in the Douay Version (Roman Catholic Bible)..."

(Halley's Bible Handbook; Classic Edition: 'The Apocrypha,' pp 406-407)

Answer 3

The seven "extra" books of the Catholic Bible are called Deuterocanonical books or "Apocrypha" by Protestants.

These books include:

1. Tobit

2. Judith

3. Wisdom

4. Sirach

5. Baruch

6. 1 Maccabees

7. 2 Maccabees

These books are added as a separate section between the Old and New Testaments or as an appendix after the New Testament in Catholic or Eastern Orthodox bibles.

Answer 4

Although Protestant Bibles included these extra books or Apocrypha sections until the 1820s, today, however, most Protestants term these books as 'deuterocanonical' books and do not accept them as canonical. See Bible construction link below.

Answer 5

Roman Catholic Answer

NONE, The Catholic Bible is exactly the same Old Testament that Our Blessed Lord used:

from

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

IV. The Canon of Scripture

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. It was by the apostolic Tradition that the church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books. (Cf. Dei Verbum 8§ 3) This complete list is called the canon of Scripture. It includes 46 books for the Old Testament (45 if we count Jeremiah and Lamentations as one) and 27 for the New. (Cf. Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum {1965})

The Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Ester, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hose4a, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.

The New Testament: the Gospels according toMatthew, Mark, Luke and John, the Acts of the Apostles, the Letters of St. Paul to the Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, the Letter to the Hebrews, the Letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, and 3 John, andJude, and Revelation (the Apocalypse).

There are 73 books.

Roman Catholic Answer

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Books of the Bible

The Catholic Church has more than once taught what books are to be regarded as inspired and therefore belong to The Bible. At the Council of Trent, in 1546, the biblical canon was solemnly defined and the Vulgate declared to be authentic:

"The council follows the example of the orthodox Fathers and with the same sense of devotion and reverence with which it accepts and venerates all the books both of the Old and the New Testament, since one God is the author of both, it also accepts and venerates traditions concerned with faith and morals as having been received orally from Christ or inspired by the Holy Spirit and continuously preserved in the Catholic Church. It judged, however, that a list of the Sacred Books should be written into this decree so that no one may doubt which books the council accepts. The list is here given.

"The Old Testament: five books of Moses, that is, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy; Josua, Judges, Ruth, four books of Kings, two of Paralipomenon; the first book of Esdras and the second, which is called Nehemias; Tobias, Judith, Esther, Job, Dave's Psalter of one hundred and fifty psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Canticle of Canticles, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Isaias, Jeremias with Baruch, Ezechiel, Daniel; the twelve minor prophets, that is Osee, Joel, Amos, Abdias, Jonas, Micheas, Nahum, Habacuc, Sophonias, Aggeus, Zacharias, Malachias; two books of Machabees, the first and the second.

"The New Testament: the four Gospels, according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles, written by The Evangelist Luke; fourteen epistles of the Apostle Paul: to the romans, two to the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Colossians, two to the Thessalonians, two to Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, to the Hebrews; two epistles of the Apostle Peter, three of the Apostle John, one of the Apostles James, one of the Apostle Jude; and the Apocalypse of the Apostle John. Moreover, if anyone does not accept these books as sacred and canonical in their entirety, with all their parts, according to the text usually read in the Catholic Church and as they are in the ancient Latin Vulgate, but knowingly and willfully contemns the traditions previously mentioned: let him be anathema.

"Moreover, since the same sacred council has thought that it would be very useful for the Church of God if it were know which one of all the Latin editions that are in circulation is the authentic edition, it determines and decrees that the ancient Vulgate, which has been approved in the church by the use of many centuries, should be considered the authentic edition in public readings, disputations, preaching, and explanations; and that no one should presume or date to reject it under any pretext whatever" (Denzinger 1501-6).

A standard listing of the books of the bible, according to the directives of Pope Pius XII, shows a number of variants in the titles of the books, their division and sequence, as follows:

Old Testament

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Tobit

Judith

Esther

1 Maccabees

2 Maccabees

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Songs

Wisdom

Ecclesiasticus

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Baruch

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Obadiah

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

　

New Testament

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

Romans

1 Corinthians

2 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Colossians

1 Thessalonians

2 Thessalonians

1 Timothy

2 Timothy

Titus

Philemon

Hebrews

James

1 Peter

2 Peter

1 John

2 John

3 John

Jude

Revelation

Please note, the first line below is to the Wikipedia article on the apocrypha which discusses the "extra" books in the Catholic Bible according to the protestant communities. This is NOT how the word "apocrypha" is used in the Catholic Church. They are referring to the Deuterocanonical books.

Answer 6

Catholic AnswerThere are no "extra" books in the Bible, I am assuming that you are referring to the Old Testament Deuterocanonical books which the protestant heretics put to the back of their Bible as "not as inspired" as the rest of the Old Testament. Martin Luther removed the Deuterocanonical books of the New Testament as well, but others objected and put them back in. Thus the modern protestant Bible contains all the books of the New Testament. Over time, however, publishers have slowly dropped the "appendix" which contained the Old Testament Deuterocanonicals from protestant Bibles:

Deutero-Canonical books

Those books of the O.T. whose place in the canon was not admitted till after that of the other books. They are Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, 1 and 2 Machabees, ver. 4 of chapt. X to the end of Esther, and Daniel, ver. 24 of chap. Iii to ver 3 of chap 8v and chaps. Xiii and xiv. Their authority is equal with that of the other books of the bible and is so admitted by all the Eastern dissident churches, except that Greek and Russian Orthodox theologians have now for some time been questioning it. Protestants have always rejected them because they are not included in the Hebrew Bible of the Jews.

Since these councils also finalized the sixty-six canonical books that all Christians accept, it is quit arbitrary for Protestants selectively to delete seven books from this authoritative Canon. This is all the more curious when the complicated, controversial history of the New Testament is understood.

Pope Innocent I concurred with and sanctioned the canonical ruling of the above councils (Letter to Exsuperius, Bishop of Toulouse) in 405.

The earliest Greek manuscripts of the Old Testament, such as Codex Sinaiticus (fourth century) and Codex Alexandrinus ©. 450) include all of the deuterocanonical books mixed in with the others and not separated.

The practice of collecting the deuterocanonical books into a separate unit dates back no further than 1520 (in other words, it was a novel innovation of Protestantism). This is admitted by, for example, the Protestant New English Bible in its "Introduction to the Apocrypha".

Protestants, following Martin Luther, removed the deuterocanonical books from their Bibles, due to their clear teaching of doctrines that had been recently repudiated by Protestants, such as prayers for the dead (Tob. 12:12; 2 Mac. 12:39-45; cf. 1 Cor. 15:29), the intercession of dead saints (2 Mac. 15:14; cf. Rev. 6:9-10), and the intermediary intercession of angels (Tob. 12:12, 15; cf. Rev. 5: 8, 8:3-4). We know this from plain statements of Luther and other reformers.

Answer 7

Deuterocanon.