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Why Do Catholic and Protestant Bibles Have Different Books?
Catholic and Protestant Old Testament canons
Why do Catholic and Protestant Bibles have different books? This Search 185 Short explores the Old Testament canon, the Greek Septuagint, and the seven books included in Catholic Bibles that are not in most Protestant Bibles.
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[0:00] The point that that I'm trying to make
[0:02] here is that scholars have analyzed the
[0:05] New Testament scriptures
[0:07] and there's 300 about 373 Old Testament
[0:11] quotes in the New Testament.
[0:13] Okay?
[0:14] Out of those 373,
[0:17] 340
[0:18] are from the Greek Septuagint.
[0:21] And how do they know? Because they can
[0:23] check
[0:24] the the sentence structure whether it's
[0:27] more Hebrew-like or it's more
[0:29] Greek-like. And Hebrew and and Greek are
[0:31] very different. So, when you construct a
[0:34] sentence and you're taking it from the
[0:35] Greek, it's going to
[0:37] be constructed differently than when it
[0:39] comes from Hebrew. All right? So, that's
[0:41] one of the the key things that they were
[0:42] able to to
[0:44] compare and say, "Okay, this is a quote
[0:46] from the Old Testament." They'll look at
[0:47] the Greek, they'll look at the Hebrew.
[0:49] Structure's like the Greek, it's
[0:51] probably from the Greek Septuagint.
[0:54] This is important because it
[0:55] demonstrates that Jesus and the New
[0:57] Testament writers regarded the Greek
[1:00] Septuagint as authoritative.
[1:03] Not a replacement for the Hebrew, but it
[1:05] was authoritative. They were able to
[1:07] quote from it. Recall that this version
[1:11] Recall that this version of the Old
[1:12] Testament had 46 books
[1:15] and included the seven books the
[1:17] Protestant Bible leaves out. I'm going
[1:19] to talk to you about why that's
[1:21] important because I get asked this
[1:22] question a lot, "Why are our Bibles
[1:24] different?" Right? And that's that's an
[1:26] important thing to to address. It's not
[1:29] meant to be divisive at all. This is not
[1:32] what this point of this is. It's
[1:34] understanding that if someone starts to
[1:36] read the scriptures and they they pick
[1:37] up a Catholic Bible, there's going to be
[1:39] seven more books in the Old Testament
[1:41] than in the Protestant Bible.
[1:42] The New Testament's exactly the same
[1:44] list.
[1:45] Okay? 27 books.