15 Myths, Mistakes, and Misrepresentations about the Deuterocanon - Softcover

Michuta, Gary G

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998839949 ISBN 13: 9780998839943

Publisher: Nikaria Press, 2017

Synopsis

Catholic and Orthodox bibles contain seven Old Testament books that are missing in most modern Protestant bibles. Catholics call these books (Sirach, Wisdom, Tobit, Judith, Baruch, 1st and 2nd Maccabees, as well as sections in Esther and Daniel) the Deuterocanon. Protestants, however, reject their inspiration and canonicity and call them the "Apocrypha." But why are these books rejected? 15 Myths, Mistakes, and Misrepresentations about the Deuterocanon explores some of the most common (and the most interesting) erroneous reasons offered as to why these books should be denied a place in the Protestant Bible. The topics range from false claims about how and why the rabbis rejected these books in the first century to whether the Council of Trent's affirmation of their inspiration in the fifteenth century was arbitrary and lacked competent scholars to make such a decision.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nikaria Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0998839949
• ISBN 13: 9780998839943
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 108