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The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox , and Eastern Catholic churches may have minor differences in their lists of accepted books. The list given here for these churches is the most inclusive: if at least one Eastern church accepts the book, it is included here. The books included by the Roman Catholic Church are universally included in the Eastern canons.


TANAKH OR OLD TESTAMENT

  • ) indicates that a book is present but in a different order. Empty cells indicate that a book is absent from that canon; such books are often called '' Apocrypha '', a term that is sometimes used specifically (and possibly pejoratively) to describe the books in the Catholic canon that are absent from the Protestant Bible; Catholic and Orthodox Christians describe these books as '' Deuterocanonical ''.




NEW TESTAMENT

In general, among Christian groups the New Testament canon is agreed-upon, although book order can vary.

The , Book Of Enoch , and the Rest of the Words of Baruch (4 Baruch). The Ethiopic Old Testament in comprises the books of the Hebrew Bible as well as all of the deuterocanonical books, along with Jubilees, Enoch and 4 Baruch.

The Peshitta excludes 2-3 John, 2 Peter, Jude, and Revelation, but Bibles of the modern Syriac Orthodox Church includes later translations of those books along with the Letter of Baruch. Still today the official lectionary followed by the Syrian Orthodox Church, with headquarters at Kottayam (Kerala), and the Chaldean Syriac Church, also known as the Church of the East (Nestorian), with headquarters at Trichur (Kerala), presents lessons from only the twenty-two books of Peshitta, the version to which appeal is made for the settlement of doctrinal questions.

Third Epistle To The Corinthians was once considered part of the Armenian Orthodox Bible, but is no longer printed with modern editions.

From the Holy Bible containing The Authorized Editon of The New Testament, A.D. 1611 and The Revised Version of A.D. 1881, Arranged in Parallel Columns; with Complete Concordance, Embracing every passage of Scripture in the Largest Edition, Aprocrypha and Psalms. Printed by O. A. Browning & CO Toledo, OH Copyright 1872 to 1885 with the Library of Congress.

The Apocrypha Books Included in this edition are ordered according to the Vulgate:

:I. Esdras hath chapters
:II. Esdras
:Torbit
:Judith
:The Rest of Ester
:Wisdom
:Ecclesiasticus
:Barugh, with the Epistle of Jeremiah
:The Songs of the Three Children
:The Story of Susanna
:The Idol Bell
:The Dragon
:The Prayer of Manassas
:I. Maccabees
:II. Maccabees


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