Why do Catholics have a different Bible?
When the canon (bible) was being put together in book form in the 4th century by the bishops of the known world, the Church was a Latin-Greek speaking Church; i.e., they lived in countries where Greek was spoken. The center of the Church had moved from Jerusalem because of the Jewish Revolt in 72 A.D. to Antioch and Alexandria. There were two groups of Jewish Rabbi schools of thought at the time; i.e. Jerusalem and Alexandrian. The rabbi’s in Jerusalem settled on a canon of Hebrew scriptures that was different than the rabbis in Alexandria and when the Catholic Church fathers gathered to adopt the Hebrew Scriptures it naturally used the Alexandrian ones since that canon was most familiar to them. When Martin Luther started the Reformation in the sixteenth century he chose to use the Jerusalem canon. This set of Hebrew scriptures contain 7 less books in it than the Alexandrian canon. Those books are: Tobit, Judith, 1 & 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch and some additional pass
