RELIGION 205
Apocrypha ("Hidden Books")
1. Historical Books
2. History written with a moral purpose
3. Wisdom Literature
4. Additions to & completions of biblical books
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I
Baruch
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Epistle of Jeremiah
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Prayer of Menasseh
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Prayer of Azariah
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Song of the Three Youths
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Susanna
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Bel and the Dragon
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Additions to Esther
Pseudepigrapha ("False Writings")
1. History rewritten
2. Sacred legends
3. Apocalypses
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I Enoch
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II Enoch
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Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs
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Sybylline Oracles
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The Assumption of Moses
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II Baruch, or The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
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III Baruch, or The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch
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IV Esdras
4. Psalms
5. Ethics and Wisdom Literature
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