Preface to the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books in the New Revised Standard Version vii The Names and Order of the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction to the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books by Howard Clark Kee The Apocrypha: A General Introduction xiii Introductions to the Individual Books of the Apocrypha xvii THE TEXT with Annotations by Howard Clark Kee 1 (a) Books and Additions ta Esther and Daniel that are in the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Slavonic Bibles Tobit 1 Judith 14 The Additions to the Book of Esther (with a translation of the entire Greek text of Esther) 27 Wisdom of Solomon 38 Ecclesiasticus, or the Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach 58 Baruch 114 The Letter of Jeremiah ( Baruch ch. 6) 119 The Additions to the Book of Daniel The Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Jews 121 Susanna 124 Bel and the Dragon 126 1 Maccabees 127 2 Maccabees 156 (b) Books in the Greek and Slavonic Bibles; not in the Roman Catholic Canon 1 Esdras ( 2 Esdras in Slavonic 3 Esdras in Appendix to Vulgate) 178 Prayer of Manasseh (in Appendix to Vulgate) 192 Psalm 151, following Psalm 150 in the Greek Bible 193 3 Maccabees 194 (c) In the Slavonic Bible and in the Latin Vulgate Appendix 2 Esdras ( 3 Esdras in Slavonic 4 Esdras in Vulgate Appendix) (Note: In the Latin Vulgate, Ezra-Nehemiah 1 and 2 Esdras.) 204 (d) In an Appendix to the Greek Bible 4 Maccabees 234 Glossary 249 Genealogical Tables 261 Tables of Weights, Measures and Values 263 Maps 264

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