Editing Deuterocanonical books (section)

==In Judaism==
{{main|Development of the Hebrew Bible canon}}
Although there is no scholarly consensus as to when the [[Development of the Hebrew Bible canon|Hebrew Bible canon]] was fixed, some scholars hold that the Hebrew canon was established well before the 1st century AD – even as early as the 4th century BC,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Jimmy|last2=Anderson|first2=Kerby|title=Evidence, Answers, and Christian Faith: Probing the Headlines|year=2002|page=120|publisher=Kregel Publications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0VQnZpoq4vgC&q=f.f+bruce+Apocrypha++book+separate+i+section&pg=PA120|isbn=9780825420351}}</ref> or by the [[Hasmonean dynasty]] (140–40 BC).<ref name="Philip R page 50">Philip R. Davies in ''The Canon Debate'', page 50: "With many other scholars, I conclude that the fixing of a canonical list was almost certainly the achievement of the Hasmonean dynasty."</ref>

The canon of modern [[Rabbinic Judaism]] excludes the deuterocanonical books. Albert J. Sundberg writes that Judaism did not exclude from their scriptures the deuterocanonicals and the additional Greek texts listed here.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sundberg: Old Testament of the Early Church|url=https://department.monm.edu/classics/Speel_Festschrift/sundbergJr.htm|access-date=2022-12-30|website=department.monm.edu}}</ref>

The Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, which the [[Early Christianity|early Christian church]] used as its Old Testament, included all of the deuterocanonical books. The term distinguished these books from both the [[protocanonical books]] (the books of the Hebrew canon) and the biblical apocrypha (books of Jewish origin that were sometimes read in Christian churches as [[religious text|scripture]] but which were not regarded as canonical).<ref>{{Cite book|publisher=Cambridge University Press|editor1=Richard Marsden|editor2=E. Ann Matter|last=Bogaert|first=Pierre Maurice|author-link=Pierre-Maurice Bogaert|title= New Cambridge History of the Bible; Vol II|contribution=The Latin Bible. c 600 to c. 900|pages= 69–92|year=2012}}</ref>

Some commentators see texts from these particular books being paraphrased, referred, or alluded to many times in the New Testament, depending in large measure on what is counted as a reference;<ref>{{cite web|last1=Akin|first1=James|title=Deuterocanonical References in the New Testament|url=http://jimmyakin.com/deuterocanonical-references-in-the-new-testament|website=Jimmy Akin|date=10 January 2012|access-date=10 October 2019}}</ref> other scholars point to a correspondence of thought.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Beckwith|first1=Roger T.|author-link=Roger T. Beckwith|title=The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church |date=2008 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|location=Eugene, Oregon|pages=382, 383, 387}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mulder|first1=M. J.|title=Mikra : text, translation, reading, and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in ancient Judaism and early Christianity|year=1988|publisher=Van Gorcum|location=Philadelphia|isbn=978-0800606046|page=81|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6eZ5DwAAQBAJ&q=manuscripts+of+anything+like+the+capacity+of+Codex+Alexandrinus+were+not+used+in+the+first+centuries&pg=PA81}}</ref>