The boundary of the Old Testament seems to be fluid. The Protestant Bible has the same number of books as the Jews. The Catholic Bible has 8 more books, and the Orthodox Bible has 16 more. The Apocrypha is the name for the group of books counted as “deuterocanonical” by some religious denominations but not by all. The OT Pseudepigrapha is another collection of books not claimed as canonical by any denominations but were quoted or regarded as authoritative. Are they the inspired word of God? Is our Old Testament complete?
Pastor Daiqing Yuan, Ph.D.