Post #56...there are other reasons the Jews generally have refrained from embracing the Apocrypha as inspired.
I wouldn't say 'generally'. Acceptance of the Septuagint was world-wide at the time of Christ. Many more Jews used Greek than Hebrew and it was the lingua franca not only of the world, but of the scattered Jews around the world and in the Middle East. The mythical Council of Jamnia was supposedly convened to deal after the Temple fall with the increased scattering of the Jews and the growing Christian presence. The tale further goes to say that the Roman emperor Flavius pressured the Council to especially remove Macabbees because of the Jewish revolt portrayed in it against the Romans. To reiterate, if there was a Council, it was convened 60 years or so after Jesus Resurrected and it was a council of Jewish Pharisees, not Christians.
The birkat, prayed by Jews in the traditions of that rabbinical Council, says "For apostates may there be no hope, and may the Nazarenes and heretics suddenly perish."
Jews think of Christians in similar fashion to what Christians think of the Latter Day Saints.