# The books of the Apocrypha Author: Oesterley, W. O. E. (William Oscar Emil), 1866-1950 Genre: Category: History - Religious Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75434 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+books+of+the+Apocrypha+Oesterley&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The book here presented is divided into two parts: the first, which is somewhat longer than the second, deals with preliminary questions; the second is occupied with some account of the nature and contents of the books comprised under the term “Apocrypha.” To those whose studies have not been concerned with early Jewish uncanonical literature it may appear that many of the subjects discussed in Part I are inappropriate, or at any rate unnecessary, because they lead, apparently, far away from the main subject to be dealt with. Students of the Apocrypha will know, however, that a really intelligent and adequate study of this body of ancient literature necessitates research into a number of... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/74/index.md) - [xlv. 23:](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/51/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/66/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/36/index.md) - [Chapter X, we shall have occasion to refer to the evidence which in](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/152/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/32/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/37/index.md) - [ix. 8-15:](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/46/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/28/index.md) - [xxxiv. 10-12:](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/54/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/72/index.md) - [chapter ii. and elsewhere:](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/56/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/73/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/59/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/60/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/70/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/38/index.md) - [v. 4-6 (no corresponding passage in the canonical Scriptures): These](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/68/index.md) - [xxi. 10-21, 371](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/151/index.md) - [book iv. by a Palestinian Jew, and the bulk of book v. also by a Jew](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/43/index.md) - [xliii. 28-32, Ben-Sira seems to go beyond anything to be found in](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/52/index.md) - [vi. 1 suggests that the same speaker is intended throughout; that](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/71/index.md) - [i. 8, 9 it is told how in Jerusalem the Jews offered sacrifice and](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/50/index.md) - [vi. 10-14 the influence of Sanballat and Tobiah upon many of those](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/35/index.md) - [viii. 2, 3) show that belief in the activity of demons had begun to](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/58/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/65/index.md) - [Chapter VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/48/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/45/index.md) - [part i. is that of Greek philosophy, a transcendent God Who has no](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/49/index.md) - [xci. 12-17) to have emanated from Sadducæan circles, and that the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/42/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/53/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/33/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/40/index.md) - [viii. 7-9, the names of thirteen men are enumerated who, together](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter x., which belongs to the “Vision” portion, an account is](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/44/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/30/index.md) - [Part I. But there are some other ways, also useful, though of less](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/55/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/61/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/47/index.md) - [l. 29, where, according to the Hebrew text, Ben-Sira speaks of those](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/39/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/67/index.md) - [iv. 41 to the end, does not really belong to the original story of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/69/index.md) - [Chapter IV we examine the question of traces of Greek influence in](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/26/index.md) - [viii. 12 of the canonical Esther; it purports to give the contents of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/64/index.md) - [chapter iii. This purports to give _verbatim_ the letter sent by](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/62/index.md) - [xiii. 2); at the same time, one is perhaps justified in seeing the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/57/index.md) - [Chapter cv., which consists only of two verses, cannot be dated;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/41/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/13/index.md) - [v. 1, 2 of the canonical Esther, which verses are omitted in the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/63/index.md) - [xvi. 2-17, 264, 308, 377](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/108/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/14/index.md) - [iv. 7-17, 34, 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/133/index.md) - [xxxvi. 17-21, 446](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/76/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/12/index.md) - [Book 414](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/24/index.md) - [xlviii. 3, 348](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/98/index.md) - [ix. 37-55, 442](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/123/index.md) - [xi. 1, 467](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/129/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/8/index.md) - [xii. 18, 520](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/144/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/22/index.md) - [v. 260-285, 210](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/147/index.md) - [ii. 13-17, 501](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/138/index.md) - [v. 1, 2, 505](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/139/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/15/index.md) - [vii. 21, 304](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/141/index.md) - [iv. 3, 263](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/100/index.md) - [ii. 1-12, 492](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/132/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/18/index.md) - [xiv. 4-15, 414](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/117/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/11/index.md) - [vi. 1, 467](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/126/index.md) - [vii. 6-73, 441](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/78/index.md) - [i. 1-9, 424](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/111/index.md) - [xxiv. 3, 241](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/91/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/19/index.md) - [iv. 1-8, 373](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/106/index.md) - [xi. 1-38, 482](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/135/index.md) - [xi. 14, 363](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/103/index.md) - [vi. 8-17, 491](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/113/index.md) - [iv. 1-11, 303](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/140/index.md) - [xii. 1-5, 416](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/116/index.md) - [xix. 5, 462](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/131/index.md) - [x. 4, 433](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/115/index.md) - [ix. 1, 2, 4, 17, 244](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/128/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/17/index.md) - [x. 1, 488](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/134/index.md) - [xv. 1, 466](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/130/index.md) - [ii. 4, 6, 411](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/112/index.md) - [i. 1, 240](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/85/index.md) - [iii. 1-6, 290, 358](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/99/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/1/index.md) - [xvi. 1-24, 402](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/110/index.md) - [ix. 1-22, 415](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/114/index.md) - [iv. 1, 237](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/125/index.md) - [xi. 3, 505](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/148/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/2/index.md) - [x. 27, 527](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/143/index.md) - [xvii. 4, 79](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/87/index.md) - [xiii. 1-8, 365](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/104/index.md) - [viii. 1, 86](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/127/index.md) - [xiii. 15, 488](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/136/index.md) - [viii. 1, 240](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/80/index.md) - [v. 1-6, 453](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/122/index.md) - [i. 3, 4, 496](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/137/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/6/index.md) - [xxii. 3-6, 323](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/90/index.md) - [vi. 2-9, 359](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/101/index.md) - [viii. 2, 3, 364](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/102/index.md) - [ix. 1, 8, 13, 14, 381](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/107/index.md) - [xi. 1, 403](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/109/index.md) - [i. 1-58, 440](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/119/index.md) - [iii. 1, 9, 284](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/124/index.md) - [ix. 7-12, 100](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/142/index.md) - [xiv. 10, 233](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/83/index.md) - [iv. 1-6, 348](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/86/index.md) - [xxxii. 3-8, 80](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/94/index.md) - [iii. 1-12, 451](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/120/index.md) - [ix. 6, 101](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/149/index.md) - [ii. 2, 4, 454](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/84/index.md) - [xviii. 1-14, 362](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/88/index.md) - [xxviii. 2, 346](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/92/index.md) - [xxxix. 1-3, 324, 326](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/95/index.md) - [lxix. 6, 269](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/146/index.md) - [v. 1, 2, 402](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/79/index.md) - [xliii. 26, 301, 364](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/97/index.md) - [xiv. 3-7, 365](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/105/index.md) - [xvi. 18-78, 511](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/145/index.md) - [lxxxv. 9, 103](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/150/index.md) - [xi. 32, 180](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/75/index.md) - [i. 1-7, 72, 447](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/77/index.md) - [xii. 7, 457](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/81/index.md) - [iii. 5, 7, 10-15, 70](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/82/index.md) - [xxi. 2, 3, 269](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/89/index.md) - [xxxi. 3, 346](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/93/index.md) - [xlii. 2, 261](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/96/index.md) - [xvi. 14-17, 438](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/118/index.md) - [iv. 1-12, 452](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-books-of-the-apocrypha-75434/chapters/121/index.md)