An introduction to the Apocrypha /
An examination of the books of the Apocrypha, their history and their significance, based on the revised standard version of the Apocrypha.
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New York,
Oxford University Press,
1957.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The meaning and use of the term 'Apocrypha'
- The growth of the Hebrew canon
- I. The first book of Esdras
- II. The second book of Esdras
- III. Tobit
- IV. Judith
- V. The additions to the book of Esther
- VI. The wisdom of Solomon
- VII. Ecclesiasticus, or the wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach
- VIII. Baruch
- IX. The letter of Jeremiah
- X. The prayer of Azariah and song of the three young men
- XI. Susanna
- XII. Bel and dragon
- XIII. The prayer of Manasseh
- XIV. The first book of the Maccabees
- XV. The second book of the Maccabees
- XVI. The Apocrypha and the New Testament
- Literary form and doctrinal development
- New Testament parallels and allusions to the Apocrypha
- The significance of parallels and allusions
- XVII. A brief history of the Apocrypha in the Christian church
- The Apocrypha in the early church, down to the Reformation
- The Apocrypha and the Protestant Reformation
- Controversies over the use of the Apocrypha
- XVIII. The pervasive influence of the Apocrypha
- English literature
- Music
- Art
- Miscellaneous.