The plan of this volume of commentary on the New English Bible texts of the shorter books of the Apocrypha follows the pattern of the now well established New Testament series. The main divisions of ...

[S&W, pp. OT 434-435; JBC, p. 517] Now the Catholic Church is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also ...

Each volume comments on one book, or a few short books of the Apocrypha and in each the text is given in full. Sections of text and commentary alternate, so that the reader does not have to keep two ...