Bible Differences
Q: Frequently, I participate in a Jewish/Christian forum. We ask each other questions about our faiths. I have a question that no one has been able to answer. I have noticed that the Catholic Bible includes the Books of Tobias and Judith. Do you know why the Protestants excluded them from the King James Version?
A: By the time of Jesus there were two collections of sacred books being used by the Jewish people. One collection was in Hebrew and was used by Palestinian Jews. The other was a Greek translation used by Greek-speaking Jews outside of Palestine.
After the fall of Jerusalem (around 70 A.D.) Palestinian Jews established an official list (Jamnian Canon) of sacred books. Jews in Alexandria following the Greek Septuagint translation formed their own canon of holy books. That canon contained Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Maccabees and Baruch—books not in the Palestinian (Jamnian) Canon.
Over the centuries Christians debated not just what books of the Jews were to be regarded as inspired but also what books written by Christians should be regarded as Scripture.
When Martin Luther translated the Bible, he followed the Jamnian (Palestinian) Canon and omitted certain Old Testament books.
The Council of Trent then definitively pronounced what books were to be held as inspired. Trent followed the Greek Septuagint translation (Alexandrian Canon), including those books not in the Jamnian Canon.
At least some Protestant translations followed the lead of Luther in omitting the books not in the Jamnian Canon.
The modern revision of the King James Bible, the Revised Standard Version (published in 1977), contains all the books called deuterocanonical found in Catholic Bibles, as well as those recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
For more information on this, see Scripture From Scratch "Where Did We Get Our Bible?" by Elizabeth McNamer.
A: By the time of Jesus there were two collections of sacred books being used by the Jewish people. One collection was in Hebrew and was used by Palestinian Jews. The other was a Greek translation used by Greek-speaking Jews outside of Palestine.
After the fall of Jerusalem (around 70 A.D.) Palestinian Jews established an official list (Jamnian Canon) of sacred books. Jews in Alexandria following the Greek Septuagint translation formed their own canon of holy books. That canon contained Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Maccabees and Baruch—books not in the Palestinian (Jamnian) Canon.
Over the centuries Christians debated not just what books of the Jews were to be regarded as inspired but also what books written by Christians should be regarded as Scripture.
When Martin Luther translated the Bible, he followed the Jamnian (Palestinian) Canon and omitted certain Old Testament books.
The Council of Trent then definitively pronounced what books were to be held as inspired. Trent followed the Greek Septuagint translation (Alexandrian Canon), including those books not in the Jamnian Canon.
At least some Protestant translations followed the lead of Luther in omitting the books not in the Jamnian Canon.
The modern revision of the King James Bible, the Revised Standard Version (published in 1977), contains all the books called deuterocanonical found in Catholic Bibles, as well as those recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
For more information on this, see Scripture From Scratch "Where Did We Get Our Bible?" by Elizabeth McNamer.
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