It’s hard to imagine a more influential book than the Bible. When its ancient Old Testament and not-quite-as-ancient New Testament are taken into account, the Bible has been a part of the human ...

They only acknowledged 39 of the Old Testament books and refused to accept the seven books of the Apocrypha as gospel.

If you have a popular Protestant translation of the Bible, like the King James Version, you will see that there are 39 books that make up the Old Testament. If you were to pick up a Catholic Bible ...

Now the Catholic Church is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also recognize these Books as inspired by God.

Richard J. Clifford Richard J. Clifford, S.J., is professor of Old Testament and dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (founded in June 2008). A former editor of The Catholic ...

Old Testament Canon Below are quotes from the early Church Fathers from books not in the Protestant Bible, but that are in the Catholic Bible.

In his 2014 book, Carr — a professor of the Old Testament at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, a Protestant and part of the editorial board of the Catholic Biblical Association's ...

Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch had the help of 12 other Catholic biblical scholars to gather and compose the commentary on the books of the Old Testament alone.

The Protestant Bible consists of only 66 books ― 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament.

Bergant's fine introduction to the Old Testament is essentially a character study more than a narrative history and makes a valuable companion to the Roman Catholic Bible on which it is based.