Bible Question: This is interesting, TheCross. Matching the question, "What was the discharge Bible?" with your brief answer, "The first KJB they left out seven books of the Old Testament" leads to the conclusion that you are defining for the questioner what the discharge Bible is (or was). Is this it? If we're on the same page thus far, do you know why the discharge Bible was so called? It seems like such an odd name for a Bible. This is my very first exposure to the term...... You use the initials KJB -- meaning the Authorized or King James Verson (KJV)? You say in the first KJB -- the 1611 version? -- they left out seven Old Testament books. Do you have knowledge, TheCross, of (1) why they were left out -- whether by accident or design? and (2) which books were omitted. Were they books of the Jewish canon (known by Catholics as protocanonical) or of the Apocrypha (Catholic term is deuterocanonical). Of course, the Protestant Apocrypha consists of some 15 Old Testament books, which makes the number seven you mention not quite cover them..... So, if you have some fill-in information that may cover some of these little questions I've posed, please grace the forum with more facts on this rather interesting item. And. if you will, please footnote your sources. --Hank |
Bible Answer: Hank, The Apocrypha has 18 books not 15. Joshua |