The Apocrypha, the Septuagint, and Other Greek Witnesses

Abstract As for the Apocrypha, the Septuagint and Other Greek witnesses, there are four different groups of canons or Bibles to consider. Group one comprises the books and additions (to Esther and Daniel) that are in the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Slavonic Bibles: Tobit, Judith, Additions to Esther, Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach, Baruch, the Letter of Baruch, the Letter of Jeremiah (which is Baruch, chapter 6), the Additions to the Book of Daniel (with the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Jews, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon), 1 Maccabees, and 2 Maccabees; the second group consists of the books in the Greek and Slavonic Bibles, which are not in the Roman Catholic canon (1 Esdras, also called 2 Esdras in Slavonic or 3 Esdras in the Appendix to the Vulgate), the Prayer of Manasseh (in an appendix to the Vulgate), Psalm 151, and 3 Maccabees; the third group contains the book that is in the Slavonic Bible and in the Latin Vulgate Appendix, but not in the Greek Bible: 2 Esdras (also called 3 Esdras in the Slavonic Bible or 4 Esdras in the Vulgate Appendix); and the fourth group contains 4 Maccabees, which can only be found in an appendix to the Greek Bible.