DEUTEROCANONCIAL WRITINGS
The Roman Catholic
Bible contains seven books, in addition to additions to Daniel, Esther, and
Jeremiah, which are not in the Hebrew Bible (or the canonical Bible of the
Protestants). These writings are called “deuterocanonical” (i.e., the second
canon) by some scholars, and “apocryphal” by others, which has led to some confusion, since other writings are considered “apocryphal” by both Protestants
and Catholics. The seven in question are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon,
Ecclesiasticus (not to be confused with Ecclesiastes), Baruch, I and II
Maccabees.
The fragments
discovered at Qumran represent the following books:
Tobit. Three MSS in
4Q, one Hebrew, two Aramaic, one of which was on papyrus.
Judith. Not
identified.
Wisdom of Solomon:
Fragments from 2Q.
Epistle of Jeremy.
Fragments on papyrus from 7Q.
Baruch, I and II
Maccabees. Not identified. (William Sanford LaSor, The Dead Sea Scrolls and
the Christian Faith [rev ed.; Chicago: Moody Press, 1962], 44-45)
