At more than 500 pages, Bruce Gordon’s “The Bible: A Global History” (Basic Books, $35) is really a history of Christianity written from the perspective of sacred Scripture. The Bible is the book, the ...

Scholarly Catholic missionaries are collaborating with Protestant ministers in translating the Bible into Singhalese, Indonesian, Swahili, Zulu and Japanese.

6 Mark Giszczak, Bible Translation and the Making of the ESV Catholic Edition, Greenwood Village, CO: Augustine Institute, 2022, p. 72.

Protestant Bible students have high regard for the work of such men as Catholic University’s Semitics expert, Monsignor Patrick Skehan, Father David Stanley of the State University of Iowa ...

The Catholic Bible consists of 46 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament (which is the same NT as the Protestant Bible). The additional Old Testament sections in the Catholic ...

Some books have been used to justify dogmas—such as Purgatory, indulgences, venial sin—or practices that Protestants reject. The Catholic Bible is based on the Latin Vulgate, which Jerome compiled in ...

So now, when an edition of the Bible says “with Apocrypha” on the cover, the extra books from the Septuagint will usually be placed between the Old and New Testaments or at the end of the Bible.

In addition to the 66 books of the Protestant Bible, it includes seven additional books considered extra-biblical books outside of the Catholic Church. Unlike the Latin Vulgate, the Jerusalem Bible ...