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deuterocanonical books
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deuterocanonical books: see Old Testament Old Testament, Christian name for the Hebrew Bible, which serves as the first division of the Christian Bible (see New Testament ). The designations "Old" and "New" seem to have been adopted after c.A.D.
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In the Apocryphal or Deutero-canonical book of Sirach, Enoch's perfection is mentioned (Sir 44:16), and in the Apocryphal or Deutero-canonical Wisdom of Solomon, Enoch is the example of a righteous man in whom the wisdom of the age came to fruition during his youth (even though he died).
Thus to call Hermas's Shepherd apocryphal is not to dismiss it as absurd, heretical, or unsound; it is simply to assign it extra-canonical or even deutero-canonical status.
It is also found in the deutero-canonical book of Sirach (33:7-15), as well as in extra-biblical Israelite documents such as the Testamen of Asher (1.
 
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