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T
HE
A
POCRYPHA
 
with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books
 
Z
AINE
R 
IDLING
, Ph.D.
Editor 
New Revised Standard Version
 
Copyright ©1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churchesof Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
 
APOCRYPHA, TABLE OF CONTENTS 11
T
ABLE OF
C
ONTENTS
 
to the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books
HT
Introduction to the Apocrypha
TH
…………….……………………. 2
HT
Tobit
TH
…………………………………………………………………. 16
HT
Judith
TH
………………………………………………………………… 44
HT
Additions to Esther
TH
……………………………………..………… 75
HT
Wisdom of Solomon
TH
……………………………………….…..…. 99
HT
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
TH
………………………………..…….……… 138
HT
Baruch
TH
………………………………………………………………. 252
HT
Letter of Jeremiah
TH
………………………………………..………. 264
HT
Additions to Daniel
TH
………………………………………….…… 270 
HT
Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Jews
TH
……… 271 
HT
Susanna
TH
………………………………………………………..… 277 
HT
Bel and the Dragon
TH
…………………………………………… 283
HT
1 Maccabees
TH
……………………………………………………….. 287
HT
2 Maccabees
TH
……………………………………………………….. 350
HT
1 Esdras
TH
………………………………………………..……………. 397
HT
Prayer of Manasseh
TH
…………………………………..………….. 429
HT
Psalm 151
TH
………………………………………………..…………. 433
HT
3 Maccabees
TH
………………………………………………...…….. 435
HT
2 Esdras
TH
………………………………………………………….…. 456
HT
4 Maccabees
TH
……………………………………………………..... 517
 
 
INTRO TO THE APOCRYPHA 22
I
NTRODUCTION TO THE
 
A
POCRYPHAL
/D
EUTEROCANONICAL
B
OOKS
 
Definitions
As the terms are used in the New Revised Standard Version translation,the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books are those works that wereincluded in the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of theHebrew Bible with additions, or in the Old Latin and Vulgatetranslations, but are not included in the Hebrew text that forms boththe canon for Judaism and the Protestant Old Testament. All of theseworks, whether they are individual books or additions to the Hebrewtexts of Esther and Daniel, have been regarded as canonical by one ormore Christian communities, but not by all. (The exception to this is 4Maccabees, which appears in an appendix to the Greek Bible.)"Apocrypha" means "hidden things," but it is not clear why the termwas chosen to describe these books. It could mean that they were"hidden" or withdrawn from common use because they were viewedas containing mysterious or esoteric teaching, too profound to becommunicated to any except the initiated (see 2 Esdras 14.45-46). Or itcould mean that such books deserved to be "hidden" because theywere spurious or heretical. This ambivalence has continued into thepresent, although increasingly even scholars from traditions that donot regard these books as canonical consider them of great value forunderstanding Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and thusin the wider contexts, both literary and historical, of the later books inthe Hebrew Bible and of the New Testament as well."Deuterocanonical," along with it coordinate term "protocanonical," isused in Roman Catholic tradition to describe the status of the twogroups of books of the Old Testament. The "protocanon" consists ofthe books of the Hebrew Bible and the "deuterocanon" of the bookswhose inspiration came to be recognized later, after the matter had
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