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Anonymous

06/04/26(Thu)11:44:38 No.18512179

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Why did Catholics remove 3 and 4 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh from the Bible?

Anonymous
06/04/26(Thu)12:07:19 No.18512195

Anonymous 06/04/26(Thu)12:07:19 No.18512195

>>18512179
Do you have a link to 3 and 4 Esdras?

Anonymous
06/04/26(Thu)15:55:27 No.18512533

Anonymous 06/04/26(Thu)15:55:27 No.18512533

>>18512195
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Esdras%201&version=RSV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Esdras%201&version=RSV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prayer%20of%20Manasseh%201&version=RSV

Anonymous
06/04/26(Thu)16:06:07 No.18512557

Anonymous 06/04/26(Thu)16:06:07 No.18512557

>>18512179
There wasn't a Bible to remove it from. The canon was up to local Jewish societies to decide, some included these books, some didn't. Ethiopian Jews famously considered the Book of Enoch to be canon, so that's what local Christians adopted. The only thing Catholics did, as they always do, is attempt to rigidly standardize things, which meant recognizing that these books usually aren't treated as scripture and so shouldn't be considered scripture.

Anonymous
06/04/26(Thu)17:27:12 No.18512637

Anonymous 06/04/26(Thu)17:27:12 No.18512637

>>18512533
None of those links has 3 or 4 Esdras, only 1 and 2.