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They are known as the Deuterocanon, they include the bolded books below (in the Old Testament list) and parts of Esther (10:4-16, 14) and Daniel (3:24-90, 13, 14).

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from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Books of the Bible

The Catholic Church has more than once taught what books are to be regarded as inspired and therefore belong to the Bible. At the Council of Trent, in 1546, the biblical canon was solemnly defined and the Vulgate declared to be authentic:

"The council follows the example of the orthodox Fathers and with the same sense of devotion and reverence with which it accepts and venerates all the books both of the Old and the New Testament, since one God is the author of both, it also accepts and venerates traditions concerned with faith and morals as having been received orally from Christ or inspired by the Holy Spirit and continuously preserved in the Catholic Church. It judged, however, that a list of the Sacred Books should be written into this decree so that no one may doubt which books the council accepts. The list is here given.

"The Old Testament: five books of Moses, that is, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy; Josua, Judges, Ruth, four books of Kings, two of Paralipomenon; the first book of Esdras and the second, which is called Nehemias; Tobias, Judith, Esther, Job, Dave's Psalter of one hundred and fifty psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Canticle of Canticles, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Isaias, Jeremias with Baruch, Ezechiel, Daniel; the twelve minor prophets, that is Osee, Joel, Amos, Abdias, Jonas, Micheas, Nahum, Habacuc, Sophonias, Aggeus, Zacharias, Malachias; two books of Machabees, the first and the second.

"The New Testament: the four Gospels, according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles, written by The Evangelist Luke; fourteen epistles of the Apostle Paul: to the romans, two to the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Colossians, two to the Thessalonians, two to Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, to the Hebrews; two epistles of the Apostle Peter, three of the Apostle John, one of the Apostles James, one of the Apostle Jude; and the Apocalypse of the Apostle John. Moreover, if anyone does not accept these books as sacred and canonical in their entirety, with all their parts, according to the text usually read in the Catholic Church and as they are in the ancient Latin Vulgate, but knowingly and willfully contemns the traditions previously mentioned: let him be anathema.

"Moreover, since the same sacred council has thought that it would be very useful for the Church of God if it were know which one of all the Latin editions that are in circulation is the authentic edition, it determines and decrees that the ancient Vulgate, which has been approved in the church by the use of many centuries, should be4 considered the authentic edition in public readings, disputations, preaching, and explanations; and that no one should presume or date to reject it under any pretext whatever" (Denzinger 1501-6).

A standard listing of the books of the bible, according to the directives of Pope Pius XII, shows a number of variants in the titles of the books, their division and sequence, as follows:

Old Testament

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Tobit

Judith

Esther

1 Maccabees

2 Maccabees

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Songs

Wisdom

Ecclesiasticus

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Baruch

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Obadiah

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

 

New Testament

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

Romans

1 Corinthians

2 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Colossians

1 Thessalonians

2 Thessalonians

1 Timothy

2 Timothy

Titus

Philemon

Hebrews

James

1 Peter

2 Peter

1 John

2 John

3 John

Jude

Revelation

Clarification:

The question reads "Which seven books are not in the Catholic Bible" but the answer answers "Which seven books are not in the Protestant Bible." As the Catholic Bible is complete and has had no books deleted, there are no missing books. Luther deleted a number of books when he split with the Catholic Church because they included beliefs which he wanted to ignore, such as Purgatory.

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All the books in The Bible are Catholic. However, you are probably referring to those the Protestants threw out of the Bible - the deuterocanonical texts.

I. The Deuterocanonicals

The 7 books that are commonly referred to as deuterocanonical texts are:

  • Tobit
  • Judith
  • Baruch
  • Wisdom
  • Sirach (also called Ecclesiasticus)
  • 1 Maccabees
  • 2 Maccabees

Catholic translations also preserve the following texts:

  • Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children (Daniel 3:24-90 NAB)
  • Susanna's Virtue (Daniel 13 NAB)
  • Bel and the Dragon (Daniel 14 NAB)
  • Esther (chapters labeled A, B, C, D, E, and F in the NAB)

These books may also be found in many early Reformed translations of the Bible as well, such as the original printing of the 1611 King James Version; i.e.

Before 1599, nearly all Protestant bibles included the Deuterocanonical books; between the years 1526 to 1631, Protestant bibles with the Deuterocanon were the rule and not the exception. It was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that the tide began to turn toward smaller bibles for Protestants. By 1831, the books of the Deuterocanon, along with their cross-references, were almost entirely expunged from Protestant translations. (Michuta 2007, p. 245)

II. The Catholic Letters

Another grouping of 7 letters that are commonly referred to as the Catholic Letters are the following:

  • James
  • 1 Peter
  • 2 Peter
  • 1 John
  • 2 John
  • 3 John
  • Jude

The term "catholic letter" first appears, with reference only to 1 John, in the writings of Apollonius of Ephesus, a second-century apologist, known only from a citation in Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History. Eusebius himself (A.D. 260-340) used the term to refer to all seven letters. (Confraternity of Christian Doctrine 1991, p. 1340)

REFERENCES

Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. The New American Bible, (Iowa Falls: IA, World Bible Publishers, Inc. 1991).

Michuta, G. Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger - The Untold Story Of The Lost Books Of The Protestant Bible, (Port Huron, MI: Grotto Press, 2007).

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