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OLD TESTAMENT APOCRYPHAL BOOKS We shall now proceed to enumerate the apocryphal books: first the Apocrypha Proper, and next the rest of the Old and New Testament apocryphal literature. I. The Apocrypha Proper, or the apocrypha of the Old Testament as used by English-speaking Protestants, consists of the following books: r Esdras, 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Additions to Esther, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, Epistle of Jeremy
Dragon ), Prayer of Manasses, r Maccabees, 2 Maccabees. Thus the Apocrypha Proper constitutes the surplusage of the Vulgate or Bible of the Roman Church over the Hebrew Old Testament. Since , this surplusage is in turn derived from the Septuagint
Protestant
Vulgate was revised by Jerome according to the Hebrew, and, where Hebrew originals were wanting, according to the Septuagint
LITERATURE I77 which is found in the Vulgate and the Apocrypha. Proper. Luther's Bible, moreover, rejects also 3 Ezra. It should further be observed that the Vulgate adds the Prayer of Manasses and 3 and 4 Ezra after the New Testament as apocryphal.It is hardly possible to form any classification which is not open to some objection. In any case the classification must be to some extent provisional, since scholars are still divided as to the original
The Apocrypha Proper then would be classified as follows: i. Palestinian Jewish Literature: (a) Historical. (c) Apocalyptic. I (i.e. 3) Ezra. 2 (i.e. 4) Ezra (see also I Maccabees. under separate
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