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History in the Bible
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Those Books of the Septuagent, Apocrypha, Are Not Second Rate
Jerome knew that the septuigen contained books not in the tanic. He included these books in the gate, but he wasn't happy about it. Jerome was wary of any book he could not find in hebrew. Protestants use jerome's term and call these books the apocrypha. If they appear in printed protestant bibles at all, they appear as a single block between the old and new testaments. In the new american bible, revised edition that i am using, tobet judith esther and the books of macabes are placed into a section coyly labelled biblical novellas.
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