The Jews before the 2nd century A.D. did not appear to have a rigidly defined OT canon. In the words of James King West, a Protestant Bible scholar: The Scriptures of Judaism were not, therefore ...

The Hebrew Bible has 24 books. This list, or "canon," was affirmed at the Councils of Jamnia in A.D. 90 and 118. The Protestant Old Testament includes exactly the same information, but organized ...

The biblical canon comes from the authority and proclamations ... Yet – oddly enough – this is one of the very “pillars” of the Protestant worldview. Other beliefs or practices not ...

During the Reformation, Protestant trans­lators segregated those ... So what does an Ethiopian Bible look like? Ethiopians speak of both a Broad and a Narrow Canon, but even the latter, more limited ...

Protestant Bibles have gradually removed them since the ... additions to Esther and Daniel– have been part of the Catholic ...

Slightly later, Christians like Augustine developed a rival tradition based on the idea that the biblical canon encompasses books that the churches read and accepted. In short, the Protestant Old ...

Protestant and Roman Catholic Bibles have historically evolved like two separate streams that shift course from time to time but never quite join. The best-known Protestant translations of ...

Since then, all Protestant groups that came to, or were founded in America have used Bibles without the Apocrypha. Catholic bibles, however, have not varied since the original canon was approved ...

scholar and Protestant martyr William Tyndale; and John Wycliff, who in the 1300s was among the first religious and philosophical leaders to push for translation of the Latin Bible into words the ...