I recall reading once that the International Bible Society
(if I have the name right - it was an organization, based I
believe in England, whose aim was make the bible available in
all languages to all peoples) did not favor the apocrypha.
Publishers who wanted their business would therefore
not include these books.
Meg
> > I would not say that other protestant churches do not include
> > Apocrypha at
> > all. It is true that they are normally not included, but for example
> > the
> > big and heavy, so called family Bible one can find in almost every
> > Finnish
> > household does include them. Ergo they are not altogether neglected
> > by the
> > Finnish Lutheran church, don't know about the other Scandinavian
> > churches.
> That is very interesting, Jussi. I was not aware of this. I suspect
> there is a difference between Lutheran and Calvinist churches on this
> point.
> Bill.
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