A Catholic Bible has seven books a Protestant one leaves out. They are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch and 1 and 2 Maccabees, with parts of Esther and Daniel. The Reformers set them apart because they are not in the Hebrew Bible. Luther gave them a separate section in 1534, and most Protestant Bibles stopped printing them in the 1800s. The churches still answer the question differently, and each side has its reasons. Yet the people of these books are…

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