No 12
(The Catholic Bible)
As we all know, the Bible has been
translated into hundreds of languages and there are almost as many different
versions; the Catholic Bible is amongst them.
They can be recognized by the words “Nihil Obstat” and “Imprimatur”
that are always written in the front or rear cover. Although very similar to the Protestant
Bible, the Catholic Bible has certain books called “The Apocrypha” in
the Old Testament that have not been considered divinely inspired by the early
church fathers. They are not in the
Protestant Bible or the Jewish Old Testament either. These books are also called the “deuterocanonical”
books and some of them are: Tobit, Judith, 1 & 2 Maccabbees, Wisdom of
Solomon, Baruch and extra chapters in Esther and Daniel. The numbers varies from one version to
another but these are the main ones. It
is in these books that the Catholics find their beliefs of praying for the dead
(2 Machabees