[Vision2020] [Bulk] Re: Vision2020 Digest, Vol 23, Issue 5

[Chasuk]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This is a good site if you are interested in the books banned from the
>  Bible, or just other holy books:

The use of the word "banned" is slightly contentious.  It makes the
exclusion of certain book from the canon seem more conspiratorial that
it really is.  The Douay-Rheims Bible, used primarily by Catholics,
contains deuterocanonical books that aren't contained in Protestant
bibles.  These are:

Tobias
Judith
Wisdom
Ecclesiasticus
Baruch
1 Machabees
2 Machabees

Note that deuterocanonical is NOT synonymous with apocryphal.  These
works were, and are, accepted into the canon by some.  Pope Damasus,
who commissioned the translation of the Latin Vulgate (of which the
Douay-Rheims is an English translation) considered these seven works
to be inspired by God.  St. Jerome, the translator, disagreed.  All
seven works were included in th original KJV.

Chas