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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...

Testament, almost always according to the Greek translation now known as the Septuagint (abbreviated LXX, Latin for “Seventy”). However, several undisputed books of the Old Testament (such as Esther and Lamentations) are never cited in the New Testament, whereas some non-canonical books (like the Book of Enoch) are quoted (see Jude 14–15). Therefore, New Testament quotation cannot be a criterion for canonicity, as is sometimes proposed by non-Catholics. If it were, 1 Enoch would be in the Bible,
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