I'm excited about its release because I think it is one of the few iPhone Bibles that include the deuterocanon, the books that were in the common Bible of Jesus' and the apostles' day (the Septuagint) but have since been removed from the Protestant canon. (Don't worry, it defaults to "off" if you only want the Protestant Bible!) And there are even a couple not in the Catholic canon.
There's the running joke about people who have an incredible preference for the King James Bible saying, "If it was good enough for John the Baptist, it's good enough for me!" (The joke being the KJV didn't come around until 1611.) Well, in the case of the Septuagint, the saying might be true!
Feel free to email me or leave comments about this release.
3 comments:
Other than the order of the books, and the additional Maccabees, are the Catholic Deuterocanonical books the same, or are some of the verses numbered differently?
The RSV deuterocanon is a little different than the RSV-CE's. In the RSV there is the addition of, along with 3 Maccabees, the books of 1 Ezra, Prayer of Manasseh, and Letter of Jeremiah.
Of the books they share, I believe the chapter/verse numbering is the same.
Forgot on other thing RSV deuterocanon has that RSV-CE doesn't: Psalm 151.
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