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I Wonder

This is an occasional column the answers interesting questions.

I wonder what is the Apocrypha and why it is in some Bibles but not in others?

"You may notice that in some versions of the Bible there are several books and some additions to other books of the Old Testament that are not usually found in Bibles used in Protestant churches. These additional writings may be interspersed within the Old and New Testaments or printed separately in a section called the Apocrypha-literally , "things that are hidden." In the first century BCE, a group of scholars in the Egyptian city of Alexandria undertook the task of translating the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. The Greek Septuagint was the Bible used by the early Christian, who mostly spoke Greek. It was the Bible Jerome translated into Latin (the Vulgate) as that language became the language of the church. Two centuries after the Septuagint, a group of Hebrew rabbis proposed an official version of the Hebrew Scriptures for Judaism which omitted several of the books included in the Septuagint. When the reformers of the church proposed a bible, they took as the basis for their text these official Hebrew Scriptures and therefore omitted the Septuagint text included in the Roman Catholic versions."

Vicki K. Black and Peter W. Wenner. Welcome To the Bible (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing 2007) pp. 32, 33.

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