Question on a new Bible study

[Imago_Dei3]

Hello, my Catholic Parish is having a new Bible study on “the books which are in a Catholic Bible but missing from a protestant Bible”. Im thinking it is going to be one of those “well i feel this and this means to ME” study with no reference to what the Churches real teaching is on these books. I have been in the Great Adventure Bible" study by Jeff Cavins and loved it, and i study some Apologetics. What are some good recources to what needs to be learned, and why and what is in these books, that dont support protestant views. Thanks

 

[Imago_Dei3]

bump

 

[JeanneH]

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I have seen this “Bump” before. Can you enlighten me as to its meaning? Do you not understand the question? Do you not have an answer for it?

Do you think the question should not have been asked?
Just wondering…

Thanks

 

[Fidelis]

Hello, my Catholic Parish is having a new Bible study on “the books which are in a Catholic Bible but missing from a protestant Bible”. Im thinking it is going to be one of those “well i feel this and this means to ME” study with no reference to what the Churches real teaching is on these books. I have been in the Great Adventure Bible" study by Jeff Cavins and loved it, and i study some Apologetics. What are some good recources to what needs to be learned, and why and what is in these books, that dont support protestant views. Thanks

There’s a couple of good resources you may want to check out.

The first is the Navarre Bible Commentary. It is probably the best modern Catholic study Bible available right now, as it is scholarly, easy to read, and pastoral in it’s approach. The trouble is that the deuterocanonical books (the seven books that you are referring to and which are erroneously called “Apocrypha” by Proestants) are kind of spread around between several volumes, and the whole enterprise can get a bit pricey.

From an apologetics standpoint, the best book out there is “Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger” by Gary Michuta. Here’s the product blurb:

Why do Catholic Bibles have more books in their Old Testaments than the Protestant and Jewish Bibles of today? Did the Catholic Church add books to Scripture or did Protestantism remove them? What was the Bible of the earliest Christians? Does my Bible have the same books as the historic, early Christian Bible? Are the Jewish people of today using different Scriptures than they used in earlier times?

In this fascinating book, Gary Michuta takes the reader on a journey through history to find out what happened to these books of Sacred Scripture. Michuta traces the path of the Deuterocanon (called apocrypha by Protestants) from it pre-Christian roots through the Protestant Reformation to the nineteenth century and definitively settles the question of whether the Council of Trent added books to Scripture in reaction to Protestantism. Not since 1897 has their been a book, written by a Catholic, on the topic of the Old Testament. Many commonly held myths are exposed while uncovering many little known and surprising information concerning these lost books of the Protestant Bible.

I have seen this “Bump” before. Can you enlighten me as to its meaning? Do you not understand the question? Do you not have an answer for it?

Do you think the question should not have been asked?
Just wondering…

“Bump” just means when you reply to a thread that has not had much feedback so it can go to the top of the list and people can see it.

 

[Imago_Dei3]

Perfect thank you

 

[Nita]

I have seen this “Bump” before. Can you enlighten me as to its meaning? Do you not understand the question? Do you not have an answer for it?

Do you think the question should not have been asked?
Just wondering…

Thanks

When someone has started a thread and no one responds, the post keeps moving farther and farther down the list – to where it is less likely to be noticed. So, the opening poster just clicks on “Post reply” and types in “bump” and his thread goes back up to the top of the list, where it is again very noticeable and hopefully someone will respond. (It gets “bumped” back up )

 

[puzzleannie]

Hello, my Catholic Parish is having a new Bible study on “the books which are in a Catholic Bible but missing from a protestant Bible”. Im thinking it is going to be one of those “well i feel this and this means to ME” study with no reference to what the Churches real teaching is on these books.

what leads you to think this might not be a good bible study? past experience with similar courses at your parish? knowledge of the people running it? Find out what materials they are using, who is the publisher and author, who will be leading the study, and call the diocese office of catechesis and find out if this program is approved.

 

[Crumpy]

If you have access to The New Jerome Bible Commentary, you might find the article on “canonicity” which is the general subject of why certain books should be in the Bible.

I wouldn’t go out to buy that book, just for this, but if you can find one, give it a glance.

The protestant reformation is alive and well, and raging every day on the streets of all our cities. This is one of the central subjects in that argument.

My rag-tag explanation is this. Protestants generally reverted to the “books” or scrolls that the first century Jews considered to be inspired (i.e. Old Testament books).

Catholics, since apostolic times, took the Septuagint as the source of inspired books, which contain the disputed books.

There are so many posts in this forum, it may be like looking for a needle in a haystack, but there are elaborate posts showing that the New Testament books cite the Septuagint as a source of inspiration – even 300 such quotes from the S. in the NT if I’m not mistaken.

Protestants try to weasel out of that evidence by pointing out that Jesus never quoted the Septuagint. Jesus says something in Luke about scripture scrolls and the prophets, and His expression seems to exclude the deutercanonical texts. But, canonicity is hardly what Jesus was talking about at the time.

Reviewing the questions in the original post, you seem to be an ideal person to participate in that Bible study. As I said, the New Jerome Biblical Commentary might give you the quick answers to your questions.

People get drawn into formal Bible study because of the questions you have. They are neither simply nor briefly answered.

 

[Kasey1]

There’s a couple of good resources you may want to check out.

The first is the Navarre Bible Commentary. It is probably the best modern Catholic study Bible available right now, as it is scholarly, easy to read, and pastoral in it’s approach. The trouble is that the deuterocanonical books (the seven books that you are referring to and which are erroneously called “Apocrypha” by Proestants) are kind of spread around between several volumes, and the whole enterprise can get a bit pricey.

From an apologetics standpoint, the best book out there is “Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger” by Gary Michuta. Here’s the product blurb:

“Bump” just means when you reply to a thread that has not had much feedback so it can go to the top of the list and people can see it.

ohh,i know,thank you

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