The Roman Catholic Old Testament includes all books in the Protestant Old Testament plus others that Protestants call the Apocrypha. For the most part, the Roman Catholic Old Testament includes the books in the Septuagint (LXX), an ancient Greek translation of Jewish writings, which included not only the Tanakh but additional documents.
The narrower Old Testament canon of the Ethiopic church includes the books of the Hebrew Bible, all of the Apocrypha, and yet more books.
Old Testament(Roman Catholic)
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Old Testament(Ethiopic Narrower Canon)
Adapted from Hans Peter Rüger, "The Extent of the Old Testament Canon," The Bible Translator 40 (1989), pp. 301-303; and Bruce Metzger, "Bible," Oxford Companion to the Bible, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 79. Metzger adds one more book to the list above: Joseph ben Gurion's (Josippon's) medieval history of the Jews and other nations. See also: The Biblical Canon Of The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Today. |
See Also: The Canon
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