The Old Testament in Catholic Bibles contains seven more books than are found in Protestant Bibles (46 and 39, respectively). Protestants call them (inaccurately) the Apocrypha, while Catholics refer ...
(The Conversation) — ‘Apocrypha’ means ‘hidden’ in Greek, but it is often used to describe texts that are outside the official biblical canon. (The Conversation) — Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint Peter ...
The word “Apocrypha” commonly denotes the fourteen or fifteen books which are present in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Old Testament but which are not included in the canon of the Hebrew Old ...
Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint Peter is one of the most important. In the Book of Matthew, Jesus declares that Peter is the “rock” on which “I will build my church,” and Catholic tradition considers ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christy Cobb, University of Denver (THE CONVERSATION) Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint ...