And just what authority do you cite, when you state that these works “were never part of the Jewish Canon”?
Tobit, Baruch, Judith , Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, together with 7 chapters of the Book of Esther and 66 verses of the 3rd chapter of Daniel and the 13th & 14th chapters of Daniel, were deliberately cut out of the Bible.
There is no basis for the claim they were not part of Jewish Canon.
Luther made no such reference when he discarded these works. In fact he cited personal taste as he pronounced “throw it overboard”, in reference to 2 Maccabees, daring to proclaim “it is holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins.”
ALL of the works listed above formed a part of the Hebrew Bible over 100 years before Christ!
The hebrew canon has never held those book.. all the OT is written by Jewish prophets in Hebrew
Jerome did not include them in the canon, Epiphanius rejected them all.
Hilary ) rejected the apocrypha
I could go on...but for someone to say that they were a part of the official Hebrew canon is wrong..