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

[Paul Rumelhart]

I agree that the word "banned" carries too much negative weight here.  
There is a long list of books that were "not selected" to be in the 
official canon, though, on that site including the Books of Adam, Moses, 
Abraham, Jubilees, a few different versions of the Book of Enoch, the 
Gospels of Peter, Thomas, Mary, Phillip, Bartholomew, and even Judas, 
and a number of letters of Herod and Pilate, and epistles of Ignatius, 
Polycarp, Barnabus, and Clement, and even the Gospel of the Infancy of 
Jesus Christ that purports to describe some of the "missing years" 
between when he was a baby and when he was about 30.

It's interesting stuff.

Paul

Chasuk wrote:
> 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
>
>