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To: Mercat
It doesn't matter which version...

It does as far as how much to read before you are finished--Catholic and Orthodox Bibles include the so-called Apocryphal or deutero-canonical books of the Old Testament.

Older Protestant editions of the Bible also included those books, until the early 19th century. I think the Bible Abraham Lincoln read from as a boy included them.

Shakespeare was familiar with that material too--when he has Shylock say, "A Daniel! A second Daniel!" he's referring to a passage not in the book of Daniel found in Protestant editions (and Shylock, if he had been a real person, probably would have been unfamiliar with that passage as well).

15 posted on 08/25/2010 6:33:24 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

I do want to read those books since, A, I’m a Catholic and B, I’m currently obsessing on Shakespeare and have listened to and watched The Merchant of Venice several times in the last few months. So do you have a link?


29 posted on 08/25/2010 8:27:07 AM PDT by Mercat (ground zero mosque/shariah HQ/halal restaurant and petting zoo)
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