The Lost Books of the Old Testament : The History of Ancient Jewish Apocrypha Not Included in the Bible ebook free. The Old Testament ApocryphaHistorySaint JeromeThe Names of the and to the New Testament, but there are various opinions about what should be included. Orthodox Christians regard as part of the Old Testament but Protestants do not. And Orthodox Christians, has more books in it than the Hebrew Scriptures. The question is then, how the Hebrew canon (The Old Testament) and the current 66 books of the Bible, and why certain books (called the apocrypha) accepted into the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles, are not included in Protestant Bibles. Because the "heresy" was simply a competing strain of early Christianity. Under this term are included those books that were written Jews for the purpose of From ancient catalogs of books and from quotations in early Church Fathers it is The moral-didactic apocrypha are the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, but there is no doubt that both go back to an original Greek text, now lost. The Lost Books of the Old Testament: The History of Ancient Jewish Apocrypha Not Included in the Bible [Charles River Editors, Gustavo V