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Subject: Re: Linux provides software to study the Bible, out of the box
Date: 18 Apr 2025 00:11:42 GMT
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:20:41 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> I'm the type of person who, when told not to look in a certain
> direction, will do nothing other than look in that direction. If there
> is a way to get the deutorocanonicals easily, I will be happy to read
> them all, especially considering the passage RonB cited.

https://archive.org/details/thejerusalembible1966

I have the hardcopy but I assume the odering is the same. There isn't 
exactly a red flag saying 'deuterocanonical'  The OT is ordered into the 
Pentateuch, Historical Books, Wisdom Books, and the Prophets.

Tobit, Judith, Esther, Maccabees I and II follow Ezra in Historical.  
Wisdom and *Ecclesiaticus follow The Song of Songs. (not Ecclesiastes 
which is before the Song of Songs) Baruch and Daniel are in Prophets, 
after Lamentations.

The footnote says some editions may omit the books entirely, put them into 
Apocrypha, or in the case of Esther and Daniel, edit out parts. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Bible

*also called Sirach

You can research why the Protestants used the Masoretic Text rather than 
the Septuagint. A fun fact is some quotations in the NT are from the 
Septuagint, not the Hebrew text. Another oddity is when the Psalms were 
translated into Greek (because most Jews couldn't read Hebrew any more) 
the ordering wasn't the same. The Jerusalem Bible (1966) uses the Hebrew 
numbering but in the Catholic bible when I was growing up 'The Lord is my 
shepherd' was Psalm 22, not 23, confusing the hell out of me.

As far as I'm concerned the Catholic Church wrote the book, or at least 
the canon, in 382. Over 1000 years of tradition wasn't good enough for the 
'reformers'. Good luck with your bible studies. There was a lot of sausage 
making going on. If Marcion had won the OT would be gone, and the NT would 
be Luke and some of Paul's epistles where he wasn't oo far off track.