How is the Catholic Bible different from the Protestant Bible?
The Catholic Bible is larger than the Protestant Bible, primarily because Martin Luther excluded several books in his 1534 translation.The ApocryphaThe Catholic Bible includes several books that were part of the ancient Greek translation (the Septuagint) but not recognized in the Jewish canon: Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch.New Testament TextsThe Catholic Bible includes several books that were of questionable value to Luther, in particular, the Book of Revelation. Luther did not, however, remove these texts from his translation.Council of FlorenceThe Catholics confirmed their canon at the Council of Florence in 1442, well before the Protestant Reformation. Even after Luther’s objections, this canon was confirmed at the Council of Trent in 1546.SequenceThe sequence of the books in the Catholic Bible are the same as the Protestant Bible, although some individual books have slight internal changes.The Jerusalem BibleOne of the major objections Luther had to th
