I suspect it may have been the Levites that didn't allow some of your books to go into the bible...
And what do you mean Luther, my guy...Luther's a Catholic...And not a very good Catholic, at that...He's one of yours...
Good point! Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, First and Second Maccabees and the additions to Esther and Daniel were never written in the Hebrew. The Old Testament canon was closed with Ezra and Nehemiah. The Jewish Council of Jamnia (90 a.d.) made certain that these books were not considered part of their canon. Romans 3:1-2
Jerome (340-420 a.d.), who learned Hebrew, to enable him to translate his "Vulgate" directly from the Hebrew scriptures, at first was not going to include these books. He was told to do it by "The Church".
This is a quote from Jerome; "As the Church reads the books of Judith and Tobit and Maccabees but does not receive them among the canonical scriptures, so also it reads Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus for the edification of the people, not for the authoritative confirmation of doctrine."
The Council of Trent (1546) finally decided to canonize these books....probably because in 1536 Martin Luther had relegated these books to a special section called "The Apocrypha" in his German Bible. The canonization evidently was done out of spite. Why else would the Church have waited 1500 years?