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Philosophical Debates of The Apocrypha

Apocrypha: The 14 books of the Septuagint included in the Vulgate but considered uncanonical by Protestants because they are not part of the Hebrew Scriptures. The Roman Catholic canon accepts 11 of these books and includes them in the Douay Bible.
It is hard to understand why the same religion of Christianity has two opposite views of the ancient text, The Apocrypha. What is the theory behind this disagreement? Catholicism believes this text is scripture written by people of authority, or prophets, in between the ending Canon of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. Protestants, on the other hand, take the side of the adjective word apocryphal, which means, of questionable authorship and/or authenticity.2
In 250ish BCE, the Septuagint occurred. This was the translation, of the Old Testament from Hebrew to Greek. Theologians, of all Christianity, believe that at least some of the books of The Apocrypha were translated into Greek with the Old Testame...

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