***The Protestant Reformers follows the Palestinian canon[4] of Scripture (39 books), which was not officially recognized by Jews until around 100 A.D.”***
Yet the Geneva bible and KJV both origionaly contained the Apocrypha books.
I have read them and find them generaly harmless pious works of fiction running the leingth from rediculous (Tobias) to interesting (Macabees) to good moral lessons in the Wisdom books.
As for accuracy, were the SPARTANS really childen of Abraham as Maccabes and the historian Josephus says they were?
These should be placed along with the Shepherd of Hermas in the pious reading but not cannonical books.
Maccabees contains the origin of Hanukkah.
why is it not in the Hebrew Canon?