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To: magisterium
The definition of “apocrypha” depends on who is doing the defining. For Catholics, “apocrypha” would consist of those books not found in the 73-book Bible.

Ok, I'm really confuse now. There is only 66 books in the bible?

72 posted on 07/29/2007 5:39:42 AM PDT by sirchtruth (No one has the RIGHT not to be offended...)
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To: sirchtruth

The Catholic Bible has seven more books than the Protestant versions. In addition to the 66 books in, for example, the King James Bible, Catholics also consider 1 and 2 Maccabees, Tobit, Wisdom, Baruch, Judith and Ecclesiasticus (a.k.a. Sirach) as Scripture. From our way of looking at things, these are not “extra” books, rather, the 16th Century Protestants removed these 7 books from their rightful place in the canon of Scripture.

The 7-book discrepancy remains to this day.


76 posted on 07/29/2007 10:50:32 AM PDT by magisterium
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