• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Even “the bible” isn’t “the bible”.

    “Protestant Bibles have only 39 books in the Old Testament, however, while Catholic Bibles have 46.” source

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      Every denomination has a different Bible, with different books they consider Canon. For instance, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church has a staggering 81 books. They consider the book of Enoch canon, which almost every other denomination considers apocryphal. Interestingly, the book of Enoch corroborates a lot of information from other apocryphal texts, such as the origin of nephilim.