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Deuterocanon
Apocrypha
- 1 Esdras Esdras A, 3 Esdras 11 connections
- 1 Maccabees 44 connections
- 2 Maccabees 65 connections
- 3 Maccabees 20 connections
- Baruch 49 connections
- Bel and the Dragon 3 connections
- Judith 44 connections
- Letter of Jeremiah 13 connections
- Prayer of Azariah 0 connections
- Prayer of Manasseh 0 connections
- Psalm 151 0 connections
- Sirach Ben Sira, Ecclesiasticus 398 connections
- Susanna 4 connections
- Tobit 131 connections
- Wisdom of Solomon 257 connections
About this tradition
The Greek term apocrypha literally meant “things hidden” and often carried a negative connotation. In the West, Apocrypha has referred to those texts that were included in the Christian Old Testaments but were not part of the Jewish Bible and were as a result not included in the Protestant Old Testaments. Yet the inclusion of these texts in the Bible was unsettled and even hotly debated for the entire history of Christianity, and ambiguity about both the term “Apocrypha” and the texts to be included in this category has never disappeared.
Lawrence M. Wills, Introduction to the Apocrypha: Jewish Books in Christian Bibles (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), 1.
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