Faith & Reason Nexus

• 1 Esdras
• 2 Esdras
• Tobit
• Judith
• Additions to Esther
• The Wisdom of Solomon
• Ecclesiasticus (Sirach)
• Baruch
• The Letter of Jeremiah
• The Song of the Three Young Men
• Susanna
• Bel and the Dragon
• The Prayer of Manasseh
• 1 Maccabees
• 2 Maccabees

Apocrypha Facts:

• “Apocrypha” means “hidden” or “secret.”
• The Apocrypha emerged during the 400-year interim period between the Old and New Testaments.
• Jews of the Dispersion in Egypt included these books in the Greek translation of the Old Testament, known as the Septuagint.
• Jews of Palestine rejected them from the Hebrew canon.
• At the Council of Trent in 1546 A.D., the Roman Catholic Church declared 11 of the 15 books to be included in the Catholic Bible.
• Jesus never quoted from these books.
• Most early “church fathers” regarded them as uninspired.