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The Old Testament had been existence for some time. Or don't the Catholics consider that the Bible?

The canon wasn't closed until after 400. And, BTW, Catholics and Orthodox use all the books that the Jews use - including the ones that Luther removed.

96 posted on 03/13/2005 9:06:22 PM PST by Desdemona
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To: Desdemona
The canon wasn't closed until after 400. And, BTW, Catholics and Orthodox use all the books that the Jews use - including the ones that Luther removed.

The Jews don't list the Apocrypha (or Deturocanon) as canon. It is part of tradition, but not canon. Many back then (and today) say that those books were brought in when the LXX was translated. That is why Jerome didn't want to include them in the Vulgate at first, there were not in Hebrew, but in Greek. In most European Lutheran bibles, the Apocrypha is in a separate section in the back or between the OT and NT. In the US, the old German Bibles did have them in them (my grandfathers did) but after WWII the Lutheran Churches no longer used German and shifted to a regularly available KJV/RSV.

180 posted on 03/14/2005 5:55:44 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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