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What are the Deuterocanonical Books?
RBRobert Bascom · Sep 16, 2014, 3:46 AM · Last modified: Sep 28, 2026, 11:37 AM
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Note: this thread speaks about the text now under the "additional resources" link: Notice that the text is written not only from the Protestant point of view but clearly from the Western point of view, and therefore it gives rather simplistic picture of the complexity among the "Eastern Orthodox Churches". In short: orthodox Chuches do not agree on the list of books to be included into the deuterocanonical collection. This is partly because the Septuagint has never been a well defined entity, nor the Bible. The facts concerning Jerome and his role in Latin Bible translation are far from being accurate. Unfortunately. PS. I come from the Church that separates the canon from the Bible. Not every book of the Bible is canonical (but all the canonical book belong to the Bible).
Bob, I am not quite sure, but maybe you are trying to do something that is not possible. If you mean that you need to find materials from the internet that can be copied or linked here, that can be very hard or nearly impossible. However, if other sources of information can be used in this, e.g. GNT has a short and bit more reliable explanation on DC as an Introduction to the Deuterocanonical books. It is sad that PT resource does not contain it. There are, as you surely know, a lot of books on the topic, too. Some of them are more and some less technical. From the less technical end, let me mention Harrington's Invitation to the Apocrypha as an example (available as a printed book and at least as a kindle book).