Protestant Bible

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The Protestant Bible is any Christian Bible translation or revision that follows the 1825 decision by the British and Foreign Bible Society to omit books of the Biblical apocrypha.[1] This tradition follows the declaration of the 1646 Westminster Confession that "[t]he books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the Canon of Scripture; and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings."[2] This is often contrasted with the Catholic Bible, which includes the deuterocanonical books according to Roman Catholic Canon Law 825.[3]

Prior to British and Foreign Bible Society decision, most Protestant Bibles did include the Apocrypha, usually printed in a separate section and sometimes carrying a statement to the effect that they were non-canonical. A surviving quarto edition of the Great Bible, produced some time after 1549, does not contain the Apocrypha although most copies of the Great Bible contained the Apocrypha interspersed with the Old Testament books. A 1575 quarto edition of the Bishop's Bible also does not have the Apocrypha. Subsequently some copies of the 1599 and 1640 editions of the Geneva Bible were printed without the the Apocrypha.[4]

Included books

The books accepted by the Westminster Confession and thus those that compose the Protestant Bible with their commonly accepted names among the Protestant Churches are given below. Note that "1", "2", or "3" as a leading numeral is normally pronounced as the ordinal number, thus "First Samuel" for "1 Samuel".[5]

Old Testament

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.

New Testament

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Revelation.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Howsham, L. Cheap Bibles: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society. Cambridge University Press, Aug 8, 2002.
  2. ↑ Westminster Confession of Faith, 1864
  3. ↑ Code of Canon Law, 825
  4. ↑ http://www.tbsbibles.org/pdf_information/307-1.pdf
  5. ↑ Library of Congress Rule Interpretations, C.8. http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/mergedProjects/lcri/lcri/c_8__lcri.htm
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