Before I started exploring the Anglican tradition, I had only briefly thought about the Apocryhpa or Deuterocanoncial books. Honestly, I only knew them as extra books in the Catholic and Orthodox Bibles and that sometime in the first centuries of Christianity they were excluded from the canon of Scripture.
However, since my journey into Anglicanism, I have discovered these wonderful books of wisdom and history. I have found a connection between the Jewish history that I learned with my Rabbi and friend Jeremy to the wonderful stories and history of the Anglican tradition that I am discovering with my readings and studying and learning with Dale, Darrel and the Advent Anglican Mission.
This is just another small step, but so far the journey has been great.
G & P,
J+
Agreed…I knew nothing of these books until I explored Orthodoxy, and even then it wasn’t until at least 5 years into the journey. They are wonderful and Sirach is especially amazing…Proverbs on steroids.