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Say Mebetbet a Tepet
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• Pigara so libro na Biblia?
• How many Books does the Bible have?

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• The Bible is not a single book.
• It is a library of 73 books.
• Some are long Isaiah with 66 Chapters
• Others are short Obadiah with 21 verses only.
• Shortest book 3 Letter of John with only 13
  verses!
• The Bible is divided into
• Old Testament 46 books
• New Testament 27 books

73 Books
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Protestant Bible

• A Protestant Bible has only 66 books.
• Seven Books are omitted
• Tobit
• Judith
• 1-2 Maccabees
• Wisdom and Sirach
• Baruch

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Why? Akin ey?

• The Catholic Bible has 73 books
• The Protestant Bible has 66 books?

Why?
Akin?
Ey?
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Palestinian Old Testament

• In 6 BC, Jerusalem was destroyed, and the Jewish
  nation disappeared. (Israel as a nation came into
  existence only in 1949!).
• The Jews were scattered all over the world.
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• Jewish religious leaders were concerned about
  saving the faith of the people.
• Thus, the need for them to determine the books of
  their Bible.
• In the 1st Century of the Christian era, the Jews
  had not yet completed the list of their sacred
  writings.
• Which of course means the Old Testament.

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Kanian

• The compilation of official books recognized by
  the Jewish community as inspired and containing
  authentic doctrine was done.
• We call this canon, meaning norm or rule for
  it serves as a rule of life for believers.
• The books that have been rejected came to be
  known as apocryphal (meaning hidden) since they
  contain questionable teachings.
• This Jewish community of PALESTINE accepted 39
  books as being sacred books.
• This is called the PALESTINIAN CANON.

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Septuagint (The Seventy)

• During THE SAME PERIOD
• An important Jewish colony flourished in
  ALEXANDRIA, in EGYPT with over 100,000
  population.
• They did not understand Hebrew anymore.
• They translated the OT into Greek, the language
  they were using, and used these for their
  worship.
• This is called SEPTUAGINT (Based on the old story
  that they were miraculously performed by 70 wise
  men).
• The SEPTUAGINT has more than 39 books. Some texts
  were included, some translated from Hebrew and
  others written directly in Greek!
• THERE ARE NOW TWO LISTS OR CANONS OF THE
  SCRIPTURES of the JEWS
• The Palestinian
• The Alexandrian

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The Christians

• The Christians who learned that Jesus did not
  come to abolish but to fulfill and complete the
  Old Testament recognized in their Bible the books
  used by the Jews!
• But there were two lists!
• They opted for the Greek version the
  Alexandrian, the longer list or canon.
• because Greek was the language they too
  understood.

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To avoid confusion by the Jews

• Around 2nd century, the Jews seeing that the
  Christians used the Old Testament as part of
  their Bible, DECIDED to define their canon.
• In reaction against the Christians, they CHOSE
  the shorter PALESTINIAN CANON.

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What Luther started

• 16th century, Martin Luther separated from the
  Catholic Church and initiated the Protestant
  schism.
• He introduced in his new church the shorter canon
  (Palestinian canon), abandoning the tradition
  maintained by the Catholic Church for 15
  centuries!
• The reformists were greatly distressed that the
  seven extra books were in Greek, so they
  claimed.
• They considered Hebrew as the only religious
  language.

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The Catholic Church

• In 1545-1563, the Council of Trent defined the
  Catholic canon of the Scriptures.
• All the 46 books of the Old Testament.
• 27 books of the New Testament

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A Difficult Name

• The seven books being the subject of controversy
  which were accepted in the canon much later were
  the given the name DEUTOROCANONICALS.
• From Greek Deutero, second to signify that they
  passed through a second moment of the canonical
  formation.
• The 39 books which were never disputed were
  called PROTOCANONICALS.
• From the Greek, Protos, first since they have
  been included in the canon from the start.

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Modern Findings

• It has been found that NOT ALL the
  deuterocanonical books have been written
  originally in Greek.
• Qumran scrolls
• Book of Tobit was earlier composed in Aramaic
• Judith, Baruch, Sirach and 1 Maccabees were in
  Hebrew.
• Only 2 Maccabees and Wisdom could be considered
  as having been written in Greek.

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Present Practice

• In recent years, signs indicated a return to a
  more moderate attitude on the part of the
  Protestants about the 7 books.
• They realize that certain biblical doctrines
  (such as resurrection of the dead, the theme of
  the angels, the concept of retribution, the
  notion of purgatory) started to appear in these 7
  books.
• To omit them is to cut off a precious link in the
  progress and unity of revelation, and results in
  the abrupt leap towards the New Testament.
• Some Protestant bibles have included the 7 books,
  though not granted the same value as the rest.

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