What books were left out of the Bible during translation from Hebrew and why?

Answer 1

A:The Septuagint contained several books and additions that were not included in the Hebrew canon, although at least some of those works seem to have been written in Hebrew or Aramaic Those termed Deuterocanonical by the Catholic Church, or Apocryphal by Protestants are: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras (4 Ezra), Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah, Prayer of Manasseh, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Additions to Esther and Additions to Daniel. Note that 2 Esdras was written around 100CE, after most of the New Testament had been written. There is no record of these books having been regarded as included in the Hebrew Bible, even by the Greek-speaking Alexandrian Jews. Because they are omitted from the Jewish Tanach, most Protestant Bibles also omit them.

A great deal of other Jewish religious literature has also been left out of The Bible. This includes 3 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, Epistle of Aristeas, Jubilees, 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Testament of Job, Assumption of Moses, Ascension of Isaiah, 2 Baruch, The Psalms of Solomon, Pseudo-Phocylidesand the Sibylline Oracles. Some of these works were at least partly written in Hebrew or Aramaic but, although Jewish in origin, much was originally written in the Greek language. Most of this material dates from before the Christian Era, some later. These books are commonly referred to as the Pseudepigraphica because the attributions are so obviously forgeries.