Bible Question: This question has a couple of parts. First, what texts did the Catholic church have available to choose from for the Bible? Second, how is the Bible divided up (for example, historical books, prophacy etc.)? Finally, do we have a translation that is taken directly from the Greek/Hebrew into English? |
Bible Answer: Navygirl Hi and welcome to the forum. The cannon (deciding which books belong in the bible) for the Old Testament was done by Jewish scholars from manuscripts written in Hebrew. These were later compiled and translated in Koine (common) Greek and called the Septuagint. This work was done before Jesus’ birth and Jesus had access to this work so if there were problems and such we can assume He would have said something. The cannon for the New Testament was done after Jesus’ death and could possibly been done from the original writings (which have since been lost). The test used in this cannon had many points but it basically boiled down to the book had to be written by an eyewitness observer of Jesus’ ministry. After the cannon was closed copies of the New Testament traveled to various locations. Probably the most famous was the Alexandrine and the Byzantine text which were later found and used for some of the new translations. The accuracy of Bible can be attested to by many manuscripts that were lost and then found hundreds or in some cases thousands of years later and compared to modern manuscripts and found to be virtually identical. The catholic church later in history decided to include the Apocrypha which are books that were originally determined to be non canon books. Again there is no real problem here as they do not contain any contradicting teachings or doctrine and for the most confirms what the rest of the Bible says. As I said before most of the original manuscripts have since been lost but there are hundreds that are one or two copies removed. We have far more proofs ( ancient manuscripts) of the Bible’s accuracy than we do of the manuscripts of William Shakespeare and no one ever questions them. I pray this will answer your questions. EdB |
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