According to our tradition it was not. It is not even considered a part of the Jewish Apocrypha or Deuterocanon.

Catholics, and Christians in general, refer to the Hebrew Bible as the Old Testament. A more refined answer would note that Catholics accept the Apocrypha as canonical while Jews do not, so the Hebrew scriptures accepted by Catholics include the Jewish Hebrew Bible plus the Apocrypha.

Armchair Apocrypha was created on 2007-03-20.

The apocrypha was NOT included in the Bible. These are the books rejected by Jews who cannonized the scriptures.

Apocrypha - The X-Files - was created on 1996-02-16.