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The New Revised
Standard Version
Annotated Study
Apocrypha
In
Hardcover
Translation:
Release
date: November
1994
Page
size: 7 1/2 x 9
3/4 inches
Page
extent: 300 pp.
Spine
width: 5/8 inch
Typography:
Over 7/8pt
Photina
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One of
the fullest
explanations ever
given of the
Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical
books. Howard
Clark Kee brings
his years of
scholarship to
bear on these
fascinating
books, and on the
light they throw
on the accepted
biblical canon.
Includes
introductions to
the Apocrypha as
a whole and to
each book with
authoritative
verse-by-verse
annotations,
freshly compiled
cross-references,
helpful text
sub-headings.
Extended
Features:
Bible
paper,
cross-references,
footnotes,
glossary, maps,
tables of content
The Apocrypha
refer to texts
which are left
out of officially
sanctioned
versions
('canon') of the
Bible. The term
means 'things
hidden away,'
which implies
secret or
esoteric
literature.
However, none of
these texts were
ever considered
secret.
In some
Protestant
Bibles, they are
placed between
the New and Old
Testament. In the
Roman Catholic
Bibles the books
are interspersed
with the rest of
the text. In this
case they are
also called
'Deuterocanonical',
which means
'secondary
canon.' The books
on this page are
all
Deuterocanonical.
Jerome
rejected
the
Deuterocanonical
books
when he
was
translating
the
Bible
into
Latin
circa
450 CE,
(see the
Vulgate).
This was
because
no
Hebrew
version
of these
texts
could be
found,
even
though
they
were
present
in the
Greek
Old
Testament
(the
Septuagint).
However,
they
eventually
were
accepted
by the
Church,
and most
of them
remained
part of
the
Bible.
Protestants
rejected
these
books
during
the
Reformation
as
lacking
divine
authority.
They
either
excised
them
completely
or
placed
them in
a third
section
of the
Bible.
The
Roman
Catholic
Council
of
Trent,
on the
other
hand,
declared
in 1546
that the
Deuterocanonical
books
were
indeed
divine.
Of these
books,
Tobias,
Judith,
the
Wisdom
of
Solomon,
Baruch,
and
Maccabees,
remain
in the
Catholic
Bible.
First
Esdras,
Second
Esdras,
Epistle
of
Jeremiah,
Susanna,
Bel and
the
Dragon,
Prayer
of
Manasseh,
Prayer
of
Azariah,
and
Laodiceans
are not
today
considered
part of
the
Catholic
apocrypha.
With one
exception,
all of
these
books
are
considered
'Old
Testament'.
The
apocryphal
New
Testament
'Letter
of Paul
to the
Laodiceans',
was once
incorporated
in many
versions
of the
Bible.
However
Laodiceans
is now
considered
just a
pastiche
of other
Epistles,
and is
omitted
from
contemporary
Bibles.
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