The Complete Bible: Why Catholics Have Seven More Books [Ecumenical]

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[NYer]

A timely topic that often surfaces in the forum.

[RabidBartender]

Excellent article - I have always been curious why some Books were removed, while others weren’t. Thanks.

[PeterFinn]

In other news, muslims still don't care which Bible they burn or what denomination of Christian they behead.

[wolfcreek]

From a story about those who attempted to translate the Catholic Bible into other languages I watched on TV the other night.

http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

The Septuagint was commissioned by the Jewish priests, and held as valid until the Council of Jamnia-around AD 100.

You see, there were some inconvenient prophecies fulfilled via Christ, so some of those books they considered part of their canon for almost 400 years just had to disappear.

“The Catholic Old Testament follows the Alexandrian canon of the Septuagint,[3] the Old Testament which was translated into Greek around 250 B.C.

The Protestant Reformers follows the Palestinian canon[4] of Scripture (39 books), which was not officially recognized by Jews until around 100 A.D.”

[Tax-chick]

I read 1 Maccabbees to the Offspring last month. It's one of their favorites, and it fit right in with the "Greek and Persian Wars" course I was listening to on CD.

[andysandmikesmom]

Thank you for this article....like others, here, I have often wondered about this...

[Hebrewbrother]

"The Catholic Old Testament follows the Alexandrian canon of the Septuagint,[3] the Old Testament which was translated into Greek around 250 B.C."

Current scholarship has debunked the idea of a "BC" Septuigant. It is beyond a doubt the 5th column of Origen's 2nd century Hexapla.

[ricmc2175]

Succinct summary that avoids th pejoratives and “Protestant bashing” of the article. Congrats!!!

[Petronski]

Current scholarship has debunked the idea of a "BC" Septuigant. It is beyond a doubt the 5th column of Origen's 2nd century Hexapla.

Well, that proves it.

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

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ad majorem Dei Gloriam

[thefrankbaum]

Hey, quit stealing my tagline! :-P

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

Ahh, we should multiply it.

[ChurtleDawg]

and you have the evidence to back this up?

[LiteKeeper]

read later - sola Scriptura!

[Diego1618]

The Septuagint was commissioned by the Jewish priests, and held as valid until the Council of Jamnia-around AD 100.

A small correction....if you please?

The Septuagint was commissioned by Ptolemy and seventy "Alexandrian" Jews took on the task of translating Hebrew to Greek. This Hellenistic influence on Judaism was not divinely inspired and even the Apostle Paul was later threatened by it [Acts 9:29].

The "Deuts" were never written in Hebrew and were simply inserted into scripture by these "Grecian Jews". The Council of Jamnia was composed of Hebrew scholars and restored the canon to what had been established by Ezra and Nehemiah after the return from Babylon.

The Apostle Paul....being an Attorney and scholar under the tutorship of Gamaliel [Acts 22:3] would never have used a Greek translation. Gamaliel [Acts 5:34] was the Grandson of the famous Hebrew scholar, Hillel.....and a Pharisee.

When Paul asks Timothy to bring his scrolls and parchments [II Timothy 4:13] they would not have included a copy of the Grecian Septuagint.

[Petronski]

You see, there were some inconvenient prophecies fulfilled via Christ, so some of those books they considered part of their canon for almost 400 years just had to disappear.

You nailed it here!

[delacoert]

So the line in the original article, “except those rejected by the Protestant Reformers in the 1500’s,” is basically nonsense?

[maryz]

Wanna check on that? Judith, at least, was originally written in Hebrew, by a Jew, probably about 150 BC, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia. Makes me doubt the accuracy of your sweeping generalization.