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Longtime believers, new Christians, and skeptics alike will enjoy this fun, fact-filled book of biblical knowledge from Bible trivia buff and best-selling author, Stephen Lang. In 1,001 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Angels, Demons, and the Afterlife, Lang addresses such subjects as "why angels are depicted with wings," "where the idea of purgatory originated," "whether Christians can be...

He and other Christian scholars agreed that if the Jews did not consider these books sacred, neither should Christians. But these “questionable” books had been around a long time, and Jerome was pressured to include them in his Latin Bible, the Vulgate. With the Reformation in the 1500s came a renewed interest in translating the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek. The Reformers went back to Jerome’s question: Should we include these books that the Jews do not consider sacred? Some said yes,