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A Catholic Introduction to the Bible, Volume 1: The Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although many Catholics are familiar with the four Gospels and other writings of the New Testament, for most, reading the Old Testament is like walking into a foreign land. Who wrote these forty-six books? When were they written? Why were they written? What are we to make of their laws, stories, histories, and prophecies? Should the Old Testament be read by itself or in light of the New...

provide our oldest copies of any portion of Scripture, including texts that date to the second century B.C. Copies of all the undisputed books of the Old Testament were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls except for Esther and Nehemiah. However, apocryphal books like 1 Enoch and Jubilees are better represented than most biblical books, and just as many copies of Tobit were discovered as of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Job (six copies each). For this reason, as mentioned above, most scholars believe the collection
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