Specifically we do not agree on the Old Testament (OT) canon - the list of Books inspired by God. The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist.

The Old Testament in Catholic Bibles contains seven more books than are found in Protestant Bibles (46 and 39, respectively). Protestants call them (inaccurately) the Apocrypha , while Catholics ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the end of the Old Testament period, we find passages in Wisdom that conceive of the righteous as God’s elect—an election based on one’s fidelity to God rather than one’s national identity.

They only acknowledged 39 of the Old Testament books and refused to accept the seven books of the Apocrypha as gospel. This division in which books are actually correct is what led to the major ...