The Apocrypha / Deuterocanon

← all texts · Christian · c. 200 BCE – 100 CE

What this is

The books between the Testaments — Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Maccabees and more. Scripture in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, "apocryphal" in Protestant ones. The world of Second-Temple Judaism on the eve of Christianity.

Highlighted names link to their entry in the encyclopedia.

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The gods & things in it

Yahweh

Companion reading path

What to read alongside it, and why.

The Septuagint (LXX) — Greek Old Testament Christian

These books reached Christianity through the Greek LXX.

The Dead Sea Scrolls (introduction) Hebrew

The Qumran library overlaps this Second-Temple literature.

The Holy Bible — King James Version (complete) Christian

The canon that drew the line and left these out.