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 Psalms of Solomon
 Sibylline Oracles
 Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch)
 Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

Book of Enoch
Notable pseudepigraphal works include the Books of Enoch (such as 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, surviving only in Old Slavonic, and 3 Enoch, surviving
in Hebrew, c. 5th to 6th century CE). These are ancient Jewish religious works, traditionally ascribed to the prophet Enoch, the great-grandfather of the
patriarch Noah. They are not part of the biblical canon used by Jews, apart from Beta Israel. Most Christian denominations and traditions may accept
the Books of Enoch as having some historical or theological interest or significance. It has been observed that part of the Book of Enoch is quoted in
the Epistle of Jude (part of the New Testament) but Christian denominations generally regard the Books of Enoch as non-canonical or non-inspired.
[111]
 However, the Enoch books are treated as canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.[citation needed]

The older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) are estimated to date from about 300 BCE, and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably was
composed at the end of the 1st century BCE.[112]

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A Christian Bible is a set of books divided into the Old and New Testament that a Christian denomination has, at some point in their past or present,
regarded as divinely inspired scripture. [113] The Early Church primarily used the Septuagint, as it was written in Greek, the common tongue of the day, or
they used the Targums among Aramaic speakers. These, in combination with the Masoretic Text, provide the basis for the Old Testament section of
the Christian Bible. The Pauline epistles and the gospels were soon added, along with other writings, as the New Testament. [114]

Old Testament
Main article: Old Testament

Further information: Development of the Old Testament canon

The Protestant Old Testament of today has a 39-book canon – the number of books (although not the content) varies from the Jewish Tanakh only
because of a different method of division – while the Roman Catholic Church recognizes 46 books as the canonical Old Testament. The Eastern
Orthodox Churches recognize 3 Maccabees, 1 Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh and Psalm 151 in addition to the Catholic canon. Some include 2 Esdras.
The term "Hebrew scriptures" is often used as being synonymous with the Protestant Old Testament, since the surviving scriptures in Hebrew include
only those books, while Catholics and Orthodox include additional texts that have not survived in Hebrew. Eighty book Protestant Bibles include 14
books called Apocrypha in between the Old Testament and the New Testament that are deemed useful for instruction but non-canonical. [115][116][117] Both
Catholics and Protestants (as well as Greek Orthodox) have the same 27-book New Testament Canon. [118]

The Old Testament has always been central to the life of the Christian church. Bible scholar N.T. Wright says "Jesus himself was profoundly shaped by
the scriptures."[119] He adds that the earliest Christians also searched those same Hebrew scriptures in their effort to understand the earthly life of Jesus.
They regarded the "holy writings" of the Israelites as necessary and instructive for the Christian, as seen from Paul's words to Timothy (2 Timothy
3:15), and as pointing to the Messiah, and as having reached a climactic fulfilment in Jesus himself, generating the "new covenant" prophesied
by Jeremiah.[120]

Deuterocanon and apocrypha

The contents page in a complete 80 book King James Bible, listing "The Books of the Old Testament", "The Books called Apocrypha", and "The Books of the New Testament".

Further information: Deuterocanonical books and Biblical apocrypha

Christian Bibles often include books from the Septuagint that are not found in the Hebrew Bible, although the view of these books and which books are
included in these Bibles differs between different denominations. In general it can be said that Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches embrace part of
these books as part of the biblical canon, while newer denominations with roots in the Reformation to varying degrees reject those as part of the canon.
[citation needed]

In Eastern Christianity, translations based on the Septuagint still prevail. The Septuagint was generally abandoned in favour of the 10th-century
Masoretic Text as the basis for translations of the Old Testament into Western languages.[citation needed]

Some modern Western translations since the 14th century make use of the Septuagint to clarify passages in the Masoretic Text, where the Septuagint
may preserve a variant reading of the Hebrew text. [citation needed] They also sometimes adopt variants that appear in other texts, such as those discovered
among the Dead Sea Scrolls.[121][122]

A number of books which are part of the Peshitta or the Septuagint but are not found in the Hebrew Bible (i.e., among the protocanonical books) are
often referred to as deuterocanonical books by Roman Catholics referring to a later secondary (i.e., deutero) canon, that canon as fixed definitively by
the Council of Trent 1545–1563.[123][124] It includes 46 books for the Old Testament (45 if Jeremiah and Lamentations are counted as one) and 27 for the
New.[125]

Eighty book Protestant Bibles have fourteen books that are found in the Septuagint and they are placed between the Old Testament and New
Testament in a section called the Apocrypha. [117][115] Protestant traditions traditionally teach that these books are useful for instruction, but are non-
canonical.[117][115] However, Eastern Orthodox Churches include these books as part of their Old Testament and the Roman Catholic Church includes
most of them in their Old Testament with the exception of three books. [117][115]

The Roman Catholic Church recognizes: [126]

 Tobit
 Judith
 1 Maccabees
 2 Maccabees
 Wisdom
 Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus)
 Baruch
 The Letter of Jeremiah (Baruch Chapter 6)
 Greek Additions to Esther (Book of Esther, chapters 10:4–12:6)
 Greek Additions to Daniel:
o The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children  verses 1–68 (Book of Daniel, chapter 3, verses 24–90)
o Susanna (Book of Daniel, chapter 13)
o Bel and the Dragon (Book of Daniel, chapter 14)

In addition to those, the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches recognize the following:[citation needed]

 3 Maccabees
 1 Esdras
 Prayer of Manasseh
 Psalm 151

Russian and Georgian Orthodox Churches include: [citation needed]

 2 Esdras i.e., Latin Esdras in the Russian and Georgian Bibles

There is also 4 Maccabees which is only accepted as canonical in the Georgian Church. It is an appendix to the Greek Orthodox Bible, and it is
therefore sometimes included in collections of the Apocrypha. [citation needed]

The Syriac Orthodox Church includes:[citation needed]

 Psalms 151–155
 The Apocalypse of Baruch
 The Letter of Baruch

The Ethiopian Orthodox biblical canon includes:[127]

 Jubilees
 Enoch
 1–3 Meqabyan

and some other books.

The Revised Common Lectionary of the Lutheran Church, Moravian Church, Reformed Churches, Anglican Church and Methodist Church uses the
apocryphal books liturgically, with alternative Old Testament readings available. [128] Therefore, editions of the Bible intended for use in the Lutheran
Church and Anglican Church include the fourteen books of the Apocrypha, many of which are the deuterocanonical books accepted by the Catholic
Church, plus 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh, which were in the Vulgate appendix.

New Testament
Main article: New Testament

See also: Development of the New Testament canon, New Testament apocrypha, Antilegomena, and Language of the New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second portion of the Christian Bible. The mainstream consensus is that the New Testament was written
in a form of Koine Greek,[129][130] which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean[131][132][133][134] from the Conquests of Alexander the
Great (335–323 BCE) until the evolution of Byzantine Greek (c. 600). The term "New Testament" came into use in the second century during a
controversy over whether the Hebrew Bible should be included with the Christian writings as sacred scripture. [135]: 7 [11]
St. Jerome in His Study, by Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1541. Jerome produced a 4th-century Latin edition of the Bible, known as the Vulgate, that became the Catholic

Church's official translation.

It is generally accepted that the New Testament writers were Jews who took the inspiration of the Old Testament for granted. This is probably stated
earliest in 2 Timothy 3:16, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God". Scholarship on how and why ancient Jewish–Christians came to create and
accept new texts as equal to the established Hebrew texts has taken three forms. First, John Barton writes that ancient Christians simply continued the
Jewish tradition of writing and incorporating what [they] saw as inspired, authoritative religious books. [135]: 2  The second approach separates those
various inspired writings based on a concept of "canon" which developed in the second century. [135]: 3–8  The third involves formalizing canon and scripture
separately.[135]: 8–11  John Barton writes that these are