Q 01/05

How many books are in the Catholic Bible?

A) 66

B) 70

C) 72

D) 73

Answer · why

D) 73

The Catholic Bible has 73 books, seven more than the 66 of Protestant Bibles; the extra seven are Old Testament books, and Esther and Daniel are longe...

Q 02/05

How many books make up the Old Testament of a Catholic Bible?

A) 46

B) 39

C) 42

D) 44

Answer · why

A) 46

The Catholic Old Testament has 46 books: the 39 of the Hebrew Bible as Christians count them, plus seven more that Protestant Bibles set aside as Apoc...

Q 03/05

What term describes the seven Old Testament books Catholics accept that are absent from the Hebrew canon?

A) Pseudepigraphal

B) Apocalyptic

C) Deuterocanonical

D) Intertestamental

Answer · why

C) Deuterocanonical

Deuterocanonical, from the Greek for 'second canon', is the Catholic term for the seven books; Protestants group them as Apocrypha, which Luther set a...

Q 04/05

Which 16th-century theologian, a convert from Judaism, coined in 1566 the term for books of 'second canon'?

A) Sixtus of Siena

B) Robert Bellarmine

C) Cajetan

D) Erasmus

Answer · why

A) Sixtus of Siena

Sixtus of Siena, a Dominican convert from Judaism, coined 'deuterocanonical' in his 1566 Bibliotheca Sancta for books whose canonical standing was set...

Q 05/05

Which of these is NOT one of the seven books unique to the Catholic Old Testament?

A) Tobit

B) Ecclesiastes

C) Judith

D) Baruch

Answer · why

B) Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes is in every canon; the seven are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch and 1 and 2 Maccabees.