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The Apocrypha 1611 King James Text -
with an Historical Perspective
Don Callaghan
These Books form part of the sacred literature of the Alexandrian Jews
and with the exception of the Second Book of Esdras are found
interspersed with the Hebrew Scriptures in the ancient copies of the
Septuagint or Greek Version of the Old Testament. They are the product
of the era subsequent to the Captivity; having their origin partly in
Babylonia partly in Palestine and Egypt and perhaps other countries.
Most of them belong to the last centuries B.C. when prophecy oracles and
direct revelation had ceased. Some of them form an historical link
between the Old and the New Testament others have a linguistic value in
[connection] with the Hellenistic phraseology of the latter. The
narratives of the Apocrypha are partly historical records and partly
allegorical. The religious poetry is to a large extent a paraphrase upon
the Poetical and Prophetical Books of the Hebrew Canon. In the
paraphrases upon the latter there is often a new approach to New
Testament teaching especially upon God's care for the heathen world. As
to their Canonical Authority Josephus seems to reject it as a whole but
appears from his use of I Esdras rather than our Canonical Ezra to have
accepted the authenticity of at least that work. The early Christians
differed in opinion in respecting them but received them as part of the
sacred work of Israel.
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