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Why do the Jewish Bible and the Protestant OT have fewer books than the Catholic OT?
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The Catholic Old Testament includes the Deuterocanon while the Jewish and Protestant Old Testaments do not.
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Difference between Catholic bible and King James?
The Catholic Bible includes the Apocyra, which are Jewish religious books. These Jewish books are not recogonized as being authentic by most Jews, so they are left out of Jewish Holy books and Protestant (King James) Bibles.
Ano ang mga paniniwala ng Protestante?
They differ in the number of books. Catholic has more number of books than Protestant. Protestant Bible only has 7 books while Catholic has 39. A catholic bible has Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur while a Protestant bible does not.
How many books are in the modern Bible?
The Protestant has 66 books while the Catholic has 73. The Hebrew Bible has 39.
Is the NIV Young Women of Faith Bible Catholic?
Roman Catholic AnswerNo, the NIV is a protestant Bible, and the publishing firm that puts this out strictly publishes protestant books.
How many books have the bible?
The Protestant Bible has 66 books in total and Catholic Bible has 73 books. The Protestant Old Testament has 39 books. The Catholic Old Testament includes 7 additional books (e.g. Baruch, Tobit, Judith, etc.) in additional to extra chapters in book of Daniel. The Hebrew Bible includes the same books as the Protestant Old Testament but combines a number of books (e.g. Twelve minor prophet books are a single book). And the New Testament has 27 books both in the Protestant and Catholic Bibles.
How many books does the Bible have?
The Protestant Bible has 66 books in total and Catholic Bible has 73 books. The Protestant Old Testament has 39 books. The Catholic Old Testament includes 7 additional books (e.g. Baruch, Tobit, Judith, etc.) in additional to extra chapters in book of Daniel. The Hebrew Bible includes the same books as the Protestant Old Testament but combines a number of books (e.g. Twelve minor prophet books are a single book). And the New testament has 27 books both in the Protestant and Catholic Bibles.
If there are two different Bibles namely the Catholic and the Protestant Bible which one is accuratly the true and correct Bible?
The catholic bible has about seven books added to he bible.
Is there an agreement among all christian traditions about which books belong in the Old Testament?
There is more or less agreement about the main books of the Old Testament starting from Genesis and ending with Malachi.However, the Catholic Bible also includes Apocrypha books not included in the Protestant Bible. These Apocrypha books were not included in the earlier canonical Jewish Bible.The Catholic Old Testament includes Macabees I and II which are not in most Protestant bibles.
Is New American Standard Bible catholic?
The New American Standard Bible is not Catholic and is missing the deuterocanonical books removed by the Protestant Reformers. The New American Bible, however, is Catholic.
What are canonical books?
The books of the Bible that are accepted by a church. The Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant churches each have slightly different lists of books of the Bible that they accept as canonical.
Does the protestant Old Testament contain the same books as the Hebrew bible?
It depends on the denomination, but the general answer is No. Even if it has only the books present in the Jewish Bible, as opposed to some deuterocanonical books, it have extra chapters in some of the later books (like Daniel) and the order in a Protestant Old Testament will certainly be different than the Jewish Bible.
How many books are the in the holy bible?
There are 66 books in the bible. 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. 66 for the Protestant Bible. 73 for the Catholic Bible.
