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The Protestant Apocrypha contains three books (3 Esdras, 4 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh) that are accepted by many Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches as canonical, but are regarded as non-canonical by the Catholic Church and are therefore not included in modern Catholic Bibles.
The canon of the New Testament is the set of books many modern Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian Bible.For most churches, the canon is an agreed-upon list of 27 books [1] that includes the canonical Gospels, Acts, letters attributed to various apostles, and Revelation.
The Revised Version (URD) Kitab-e-Muqaddas of 1943 was published by both the Bible Society of India and the Pakistan Bible Society. It was translated from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Minor revisions were published in 1955, 1989, 1998 and 2005. In India it is available in the Nastaʿlīq, Devanagari and Roman Urdu scripts. In ...
Some religious texts are categorized as canonical, some non-canonical, and others extracanonical, semi-canonical, deutero-canonical, pre-canonical or post-canonical. [7] The term "canon" is derived from the Greek word "κανών", "a cane used as a measuring instrument". It connotes the sense of "measure, standard, norm, rule".
In biblical geography, India is described as bordering the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Ahasuerus , as referenced in the Book of Esther (Esther 1:1 and Esther 8:9). [ 1 ] 1 Maccabees , which is located in the Deuterocanonon / Aprocrypha , references "the Indian mahouts of Antichus's war elephants [second century B.C.]" ( 1 Maccabees 6:37 ...
The Church of the East was the earliest form of Christianity in India, as adopted by the St Thomas Christians of the Malabar region (present-day Kerala) from at least the third century, and possibly much earlier.
The preface to the Apocrypha in the Geneva Bible claimed that while these books "were not received by a common consent to be read and expounded publicly in the Church", and did not serve "to prove any point of Christian religion save in so much as they had the consent of the other scriptures called canonical to confirm the same", nonetheless ...
Nathan Brown, a Baptist, translated Bible into Assamese (1848) and Shan (1830s). In collaboration with Church centric bible translation, Free Bibles India has published an Assamese translation online. [18] Since May 2023, Assamese বাইবেলৰ কিতাপবোৰ books of the Bible have been made available for free by Jehovah's ...