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Apocryphal books (Old Testament)

Here are entered collections of texts of those books (frequently called Pseudepigrapha) related to the Old Testament, but excluded from both the Catholic canon and the Protestant and Jewish canons of the Old Testament. Works on individual books of this group are entered under their own title. Collections of texts of those books excluded from only the Protestant and Jewish canons of the Old Testament are entered under Bible. Apocrypha.

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• Bible. Old Testament

• Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Juvenile literature

• Bible. Old Testament -- Pseudepigraphal books
• Bible. Old Testament -- Apocryphal books
• Pseudepigraphal books (Old Testament)
• Old Testament apocryphal books

• The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English; With Introduction and Critical and Explanatory Notes To The Several Books (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1913), ed. by R. H. Charles
  • Volume I (Apocrypha): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Pseudepigrapha): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Forgotten Books of Eden, ed. by Rutherford Hayes Platt (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• History of the People of Israel (5 volumes; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1896), by Ernest Renan, trans. by Joseph Henry Allen and Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (Till the Time of King David): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (From the Reign of David up to the Capture of Samaria): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (From the Rule of the Persians to That of the Greeks): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study, by William Heaford Daubney (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Old Testament Legends: Being Stories Out of Some of the Less-Known Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament, by M. R. James (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ancient Hebrew Social Life and Custom As Indicated in Law, Narrative and Metaphor (1933), by R. H. Kennett (PDF in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The "Higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments (London and Brighton: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J.B. Young and Co., 1894), by A. H. Sayce
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The "Higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments (reprint of revised 7th edition; London and Brighton: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. S. Gorham, 1910), by A. H. Sayce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Unwrapping the Pharaohs: How Egyptian Archaeology Confirms the Biblical Timeline (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2006), by John F. Ashton and David Down (HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)

• Die Alttestamentlichen Lektionen der Griechischen Kirche (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1915), by Alfred Rahlfs (PDF at the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen)

• Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Dvora E. Weisberg (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• Biblical Prose Prayer, As a Window to the Popular Religion of Ancient Israel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), by Moshe Greenberg (HTML at UC Press)
• The Failure of the "Higher Criticism" of the Bible (London: J. Nisbet, 1905), by Emil Reich (page images at Google; US access only)
• The "Higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments (London and Brighton: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J.B. Young and Co., 1894), by A. H. Sayce
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The "Higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments (reprint of revised 7th edition; London and Brighton: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. S. Gorham, 1910), by A. H. Sayce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• History of the People of Israel (5 volumes; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1896), by Ernest Renan, trans. by Joseph Henry Allen and Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (Till the Time of King David): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (From the Reign of David up to the Capture of Samaria): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (From the Rule of the Persians to That of the Greeks): multiple formats at archive.org
• Human Nature in the Bible, by William Lyon Phelps (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Outline Studies in the Books of the Old Testament (second edition; New York et al.: F. H. Revell, 1894), by William G. Moorehead (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Folk-Lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend, and Law (3 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1919), by James George Frazer
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• From the Garden of Eden to the Crossing of the Jordan (Cairo: Printed by the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, ca. 1918), by William Willcocks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Key to The Old Testament: or, A Summary View its Several Books, Pointing Out the Instructions and Mysteries Which They Contain (London: J. Booker; et al., 1817), by Henry Rutter
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prolegomena to the History of Israel, With a Reprint of the Article "Israel" from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", by Julius Wellhausen, trans. by J. Sutherland Black and Allan Menzies
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text

• Their Hollow Inheritance: A Comprehensive Refutation of Christian Missionaries (third edition), by Michoel Drazin (frame-dependent HTML in Israel)

• Rabbi Davidis Kimchi Radicum Liber: sive, Hebraeum Bibliorum Lexicon, Cum Animadversionibus Eliae Levitae (in Hebrew with Latin notes; Berlin: Impensis G. Bethge, 1847), by David Kimhi, ed. by Johann Heinrich Biesenthal and F. Lebrecht, contrib. by Elijah Levita (page images at HathiTrust)

• Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition, by L. W. King (Gutenberg text)
• Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition (London: Pub. for the British Academy by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918), by L. W. King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Promise of the Land: The Inheritance of the Land of Canaan by the Israelites (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Moshe Weinfeld (HTML at UC Press)

• The Bible History: Old Testament, by Alfred Edersheim (HTML at biblestudytools.com)
• The Biblical Antiquities of Philo, trans. by M. R. James (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• From the Garden of Eden to the Crossing of the Jordan (Cairo: Printed by the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, ca. 1918), by William Willcocks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Testament Narratives (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1911), ed. by George Henry Nettleton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prophets and Kings, by Ellen G. White (HTML at whiteestate.org)
• Old Testament Life and Literature, by Gerald A. Larue (HTML at infidels.org)

• Introduction to the Old Testament, by John Edgar McFayden (Gutenberg text)
• A Key to The Old Testament: or, A Summary View its Several Books, Pointing Out the Instructions and Mysteries Which They Contain (London: J. Booker; et al., 1817), by Henry Rutter
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Old Testament Life and Literature, by Gerald A. Larue (HTML at infidels.org)
• The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament, by Charles Foster Kent (Gutenberg text)

• Judaic Logic: A Formal Analysis of Biblical, Talmudic and Rabbinic Logic (1997), by Avi Sion (frame-dependent HTML at thelogician.net)
• An Attempt to Delineate the Characteristic Structure of Classical (Biblical) Hebrew Poetry, by Donald Broadribb (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets and Other Old Testament Characters, from Various Sources (New York: American Book Exchange, 1881), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Legends of the Jews (legends volumes only (others are not public domain)), by Louis Ginzberg, trans. by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin, contrib. by Isaac Husik (Gutenberg and Internet Archive texts and page images)

• Syllabus for Old Testament Study (fourth edition, revised and enlarged; New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1922), by John R. Sampey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Testament of Women (2006), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)

• Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (partial serial archives)
• Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (partial serial archives)

• Essays and Miscellanies: Choice Cullings From the Manuscripts of Grace Aguilar (Philadelphia: A. Hart, 1853), by Grace Aguilar, ed. by Sarah Aguilar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Jewish Utopia (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1932), by Michael Higger (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Attempt to Delineate the Characteristic Structure of Classical (Biblical) Hebrew Poetry, by Donald Broadribb (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Vetus Testamentum Graecum, Cum Variis Lectionibus (in Greek with Greek and Latin notes; 5 volumes; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1798-1823), ed. by Robert Holmes and James Parsons
  • Book 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Book 2: multiple formats at Google
  • Book 3: multiple formats at Google
  • Books 4 and 5: multiple formats at Google

• An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek, by Henry Barclay Swete, ed. by Richard Rusden Ottley (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament with an English Translation (in Greek and English), trans. by Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (page images at CCEL)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.