Disclaimer: What follows is a question of fact, which will have a factual answer. Please refrain from injecting any witnessing for or against any particular religion. Thanks.
Many people are familiar with the fact that there’s a difference between the Protestant Bible and the Roman Catholic Bible. What I’m curious about now is how many different canons of the Bible are there and what books compose each of those canons?
The ones I know already are the Protestant, the Roman Catholic, and the Ethiopian. Here’s the Ethiopian list; I’ve left out the Protestant and Roman Catholic lists.
Just wanted to mention that the National Geographic documentary about the gospel of Judas is on YouTube. There’s a part in which the speak about how different gospels where used in different places to teach the lessons of Christ. I mention it because it may also note the actual versions as well.
* Isaiah
* Jeremiah
* Ezekial
* The Twelve (Minor Prophets)
o Hosea
o Joel
o Amos
o Obadiah
o Jonah
o Micah
o Nahum
o Habakkuk
o Zephaniah
o Haggai
o Zecariah
o Malachi
The Writings
* Psalms
* Proverbs
* Job
* Song of Solomon
* Ruth
* Lamentations
* Ecclesiastes
* Esther
* Daniel
* Ezra-Nehemiah
* Chronicles
And the Samaritan canon (the smallest canon of all):
* Isaiah
* Jeremiah
* Ezekial
* The Twelve (Minor Prophets)
o Hosea
o Joel
o Amos
o Obadiah
o Jonah
o Micah
o Nahum
o Habakkuk
o Zephaniah
o Haggai
o Zecariah
o Malachi
The Writings
* Psalms
* Proverbs
* Job
* Song of Solomon
* Ruth
* Lamentations
* Ecclesiastes
* Esther
* Daniel
* Ezra-Nehemiah
* Chronicles
The Eastern Orthodox Canon is the Roman Catholic one expanded by I and II Esdras and the Prayer of Manasses (Manasseh – sometimes listed as Psalm 152) – but it’s never been formally pronounced by an Ecumenical Council. (I believe but am not sure that Psalm 151 is included also.) Note that this is the “Catholic” Esther and Daniel, significantly longer and with more miracles than the Protestant versions of those two books. The reason I can confidently state that it is that despite no formal definition is that they accept the Septuagint Old Testament, which includes all those books. (The III and IV Esdras of the Douai appendix are the I and II Esdras of Orthodox and Anglican Bibles; the Douai canon lists Ezra and Nehemiah as I and II Esdras [Anglicized-Hebrew Ezra=Greek Esdras].) Some Septuagint editions also include a III and IV Maccabees, with what canonicity I don’t know.
The Anglican Canon is the Orthodox one with this difference: the Protestant Old Testament and the New Testament (which is the same for everyone but the Ethiopians, who accept a variable number of additional books) constitute the basic canon used to support doctrine; the deuterocanon (“Apocrypha”) is accepted as Scripture for purposes of reading and guidance, but is not used as the ground of doctrine. Hence ordinarily complete Bibles will comprise the Protestant Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament in that order. (It’s my understanding that Methodism accepts this formulary in principle, though using the deuterocanon vanishingly rarely.)