So did the deutero-canon have a separate section or not?

[Stylteralmaldo]

catholic.com/thisrock/quickquestions/?qid=356

Question:

…were the deuterocanonicals left out or put in a separate section in any of them?

Answer:

…Until Martin Luther the deuterocanonical books of the Bible were never omitted or put in a separate, non-canonical section of the Bible.

justforcatholics.org/a108.htm

Question:

St Jerome was persuaded, against his original inclination, to include the deuterocanonicals in his Vulgate edition of the Scriptures. What are your comments?

Answer:

True, yet he classed the Apocrypha in a separated category. He differentiated between the canonical books and ecclesiastical books, which he did not recognize as authoritative Scripture…

Is there any proof that St. Jerome…

(a) …did include a separate non-canonical section of the Vulgate?

(b) …did not recognize the deterocanon as authoritative scripture?

 

[Stylteralmaldo]

BUMP. Perhaps stated another way…

Is there any proof that St. Jerome…

(a) …did include a separate canonical section of the Vulgate?

(b) …did recognize the deterocanon as authoritative scripture?

 

[MarcoPolo]

I don’t know of a good website off-hand, but the book that goes into this in detail is Why Catholic Bibles are Bigger by Gary Michuta. Here is an outline of chapter 4 which is on Jerome. The book is chock-full of references to original source material.

FYI, the justforcatholics website is run by a Dr. Joe Mizzi, who has posted on this forum before under the name joemizzi. I’ve conversed with him, and seen him converse with others. In all honesty, he is not well-versed in Catholic theology at all, nor have I found him to have a grasp on Christian history.

 

[NHInsider]

I don’t know of a good website off-hand, but the book that goes into this in detail is Why Catholic Bibles are Bigger by Gary Michuta. Here is an outline of chapter 4 which is on Jerome. The book is chock-full of references to original source material.

FYI, the justforcatholics website is run by a Dr. Joe Mizzi, who has posted on this forum before under the name joemizzi. I’ve conversed with him, and seen him converse with others. In all honesty, he is not well-versed in Catholic theology at all, nor have I found him to have a grasp on Christian history.

That’s charitable. He is actively anti-catholic and his mission to convince Catholics to leave the Church.