Deuterocanonical books

Isaiah	Yeshayahu
Jeremiah	Yirmeyahu
Ezekiel	Yekhezqel

Joshua	Yehoshua
Judges	Shofetim
Samuel	Shemuel
Kings	Melakhim

Genesis	Bereshit
Exodus	Shemot
Leviticus	Wayiqra
Numbers	Bemidbar
Deuteronomy	Devarim

The deuterocanonical books,^[a] meaning "Of, pertaining to, or constituting a second canon,"^[1] collectively known as the Deuterocanon (DC),^[2] are additional books and passages considered by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches or the Assyrian Church of the East to be canonical books of the Old Testament, but which modern Jews and Protestants regard as apocrypha. The term historically denoted a secondary status and now has a Catholic usage relating to formal recognition as part of the Catholic canon in a second tranche.

Seven books are accepted as deuterocanonical by all the ancient churches: Tobias, Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, First and Second Maccabees and also certain additions to Esther and Daniel;^[4] these were regularly found in old manuscripts and ancient patristic canons. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East also have various other minor books as part of their Bibles.

They date from 300 BC to 100 AD, before the separation of the Christian church from Judaism.^[5]^[6]^[7] While the New Testament never directly quotes from or names these books (except for the Book of Enoch, traditionally accepted by the Ethiopian church only), the apostles quoted the Septuagint, which includes them.

According to the Gelasian Decree written by an anonymous author, the Council of Rome (382 AD) defined a list of books of scripture as canonical. It included most of the deuterocanonical books.^[8]^[9] Patristic and synodal lists from the 200s, 300s and 400s usually include selections of the deutorocanonical books; Jerome in the 5th century was an early source for a restricted canon only.

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^ Simpson, John A., ed. (1989). The Oxford English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Pr. ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.
^ Sanneh, Lamin (3 May 2016), Sanneh, Lamin; McClymond, Michael J. (eds.), "Bible Translation, Culture, and Religion", The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity (1 ed.), Wiley, pp. 263–281, doi:10.1002/9781118556115.ch21, ISBN 978-1-4051-5376-8, retrieved 27 April 2024
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^ "The protocanonical books of the Old Testament correspond with those of the Bible of the Hebrews, and the Old Testament as received by Protestants. The deuterocanonical (deuteros, "second") are those whose Scriptural character was contested in some quarters, but which long ago gained a secure footing in the Bible of the Catholic Church, though those of the Old Testament are classed by Protestants as the "Apocrypha". These consist of seven books: Tobias, Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, First and Second Maccabees; also certain additions to Esther and Daniel."^[3]
^ Livingstone, E. A. (2013). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. OUP Oxford. pp. 28–29. ISBN 978-0-19-107896-5.
^ "Apocrypha". International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Online. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
^ Gleason L., Archer Jr. (1974). A Survey of Old Testament Introduction. Chicago: Moody Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780802484468.
^ Cross, F. L. (Frank Leslie); Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (1997). The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church. Internet Archive. New York : Oxford University Press. p. 1062. ISBN 978-0-19-211655-0.
^ "Tertullian: Decretum Gelasianum (English translation)".

[2] Simpson, John A., ed. (1989). The Oxford English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Pr. ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.

[3] Sanneh, Lamin (3 May 2016), Sanneh, Lamin; McClymond, Michael J. (eds.), "Bible Translation, Culture, and Religion", The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity (1 ed.), Wiley, pp. 263–281, doi:10.1002/9781118556115.ch21, ISBN 978-1-4051-5376-8, retrieved 27 April 2024

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[5] "The protocanonical books of the Old Testament correspond with those of the Bible of the Hebrews, and the Old Testament as received by Protestants. The deuterocanonical (deuteros, "second") are those whose Scriptural character was contested in some quarters, but which long ago gained a secure footing in the Bible of the Catholic Church, though those of the Old Testament are classed by Protestants as the "Apocrypha". These consist of seven books: Tobias, Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, First and Second Maccabees; also certain additions to Esther and Daniel."^[3]

[6] Livingstone, E. A. (2013). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. OUP Oxford. pp. 28–29. ISBN 978-0-19-107896-5.

[7] "Apocrypha". International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Online. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

[8] Gleason L., Archer Jr. (1974). A Survey of Old Testament Introduction. Chicago: Moody Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780802484468.

[9] Cross, F. L. (Frank Leslie); Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (1997). The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church. Internet Archive. New York : Oxford University Press. p. 1062. ISBN 978-0-19-211655-0.

[tertullian.org-10] "Tertullian: Decretum Gelasianum (English translation)".

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