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Apocrypha (Charles)
The complete Apocrypha proper — 1 Esdras, 1–3 Maccabees, Tobit, Judith, Sirach, Wisdom of Solomon, Baruch, the Epistle of Jeremy, the Prayer of Manasses, and the Greek Additions to Daniel and Esther — from R. H. Charles's 1913 scholarly edition.
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Texts
1 EsdrasThe 1913 S. A. Cook translation of 1 Esdras, the Greek retelling of the fall of Jerusalem and the return from exile, with Cook's editorial introduction, from R. H. Charles's Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament.1 MaccabeesA sober historical narrative of the Jewish revolt against Antiochus Epiphanes and the rise of the Hasmonean dynasty, from Mattathias through John Hyrcanus — R. H. Charles's 1913 edition of the Apocrypha.2 MaccabeesA homiletic retelling of the Hasmonean revolt centered on the martyrdom of Eleazar and the seven brothers, translated by James Moffatt in R. H. Charles's 1913 Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.3 MaccabeesCyril Emmet's 1913 translation of 3 Maccabees, the Alexandrian tale of Ptolemy IV's failed elephant-massacre of the Egyptian Jews, with his full critical introduction.Additions to EstherThe six Greek additions to Esther — Mordecai's dream, both royal decrees in full, the prayers of Mordecai and Esther, and the dream's interpretation — translated by J. A. F. Gregg for R. H. Charles's 1913 Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.BaruchThe Book of Baruch, a penitential and wisdom work voiced as Jeremiah's scribe writing from exile, in O. C. Whitehouse's 1913 translation with his critical introduction.Bel and the DragonDaniel exposes the priests of Bel as frauds and kills a dragon worshipped as a god, in T. Witton Davies's 1913 translation and introduction.Epistle of JeremyA satirical letter attributed to Jeremiah, warning the Judean exiles bound for Babylon against the worthlessness of idols, translated by C. J. Ball for R. H. Charles's 1913 Apocrypha.JudithA widow of besieged Bethulia beheads the Assyrian general Holofernes to save her people, in A. E. Cowley's 1913 translation of the Greek text.Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three ChildrenThe 1913 R.H. Charles edition translation of the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Children, the hymn inserted into the fiery furnace scene of Daniel 3, with W. H. Bennett's editorial introduction.Prayer of ManassesThe 1913 Bishop Herbert E. Ryle translation of the Prayer of Manasses, a short penitential psalm voiced as the captive King Manasseh's plea for forgiveness, with Ryle's editorial introduction, from R. H. Charles's Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament.Sirach — EcclesiasticusThe complete Box–Oesterley translation of Ben Sira's Hebrew–Greek wisdom instruction, with its Prologue and elaborate 1913 introduction, from R. H. Charles's Apocrypha.SusannaThe complete 1913 verse translation and introduction of Susanna, the courtroom drama in which a falsely accused woman is vindicated when the young Daniel exposes her accusers' contradictory testimony.TobitA Diaspora romance of blind Tobit, tormented Sarah, and the angel Raphael, in D. C. Simpson's 1913 translation of the longer Sinaitic Greek text.Wisdom of SolomonA Hellenistic-Jewish philosophical work praising Wisdom as a divine figure and defending the righteous sufferer, in Samuel Holmes's 1913 translation.