When Ezra the Levite, who may have also been the High Priest, prepared the Official Jewish Canon at the command of God Himself, the same that is called the Old Testament by Christians, he authorized a handful of other books as being noteworthy for study. Since these survived the book burning by Nebuchadnezzar, and were not lost to humanity, Ezra didn’t feel the need to edit them nor place them in the official collection of the Holy Bible. Anyone wanting to read these books was able to. We are...
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