The Orthodox Canons Have a Few More Books Than the Modern Catholic Church Has.

The church eventually accepted this larger canon. There was argument for centuries whether to include books omitted from the maseretic text. These included tobet judith, one and two macabes,. The wisdom of solomon, bensila, also known as silec or ecclesiasticus balok - longer versions of esther and daniel. Other christians and the jews favor the masaretic text. And finally, russian orthodox bibles throw in two estras, which is also known as four esdras, or sometimes as three esdras. I'll be talking about them at length later, and it is not something i am looking forward to.