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Heidegger's Bible Handbook: OT Apocrypha: Synoptic Outline

The Apocryphal books are:


History of Bel

I.  Ecclesiastical, and those are:

1.  Moral:

a.  Wisdom:  nineteen chapters.

b.  Ecclesiasticus, or Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sirach:  fifty-one chapters.

2.  Historical, and those:

a.  Improperly such, or Dramatic:

α.  Tobit:  fourteen chapters.

β.  Baruch:  five chapter.

γ.  Epistle of Jeremiah:  seventy-three verses.

δ.  Judith:  sixteen chapters.

ε.  3 Esdras:  nine chapters.

ζ.  4 Esdras:  sixteen chapters.

η.  Additions of Esther:  six chapters.

θ.  History of Susanna:  sixty-four verses.

ι.  History of Bel:  twenty-two verses.

κ.  History of the Dragon:  twenty verses.

λ.  Hymn of Azariah:  twenty-seven verses.

μ.  Song of the Three Children:  forty-one verses.

ν.  Prayer of Manasseh:  fourteen verses.

b.  Properly such:

α.  First Book of Maccabees:  sixteen chapters.

β.  Second Book of Maccabees:  fifteen chapters.

γ.  Third Book of Maccabees:  seven chapters.


II.  Those removed from the reading of the Church:

1.  Fragments:

a.  The Appendices of the Book of Job.

b.  Psalm 151.

c.  Preface to the Lamentations of Jeremiah.

d.  Fragment of Sirach.

2.  A whole Book, namely, the Fourth of Maccabees.

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