Anagignoskomena
The Anagignoskomena - ἀναγιγνωσκόμενα (Greek, "those which are to be read") - are those books which are part of the Biblical Canon of the Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, which are not included in the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible:
- 1 Esdras,
- 2 Esdras,
- Prayer of Manasseh,
- Psalm 151,
- 3 Maccabees,
- and the appended 4 Maccabees.
The Protestant canon of The Apocrypha omits in silence Psalm 151 and the 3rd and 4th Books of the Maccabees, perhaps because these were not part of the Vulgate.
Martin Luther regarded the 7 books and parts of 2 other books of the Old Testament which he had segregated and placed into the Apocrypha, and the 4 books of the New Testament which he had placed into an appendix, as "anagignoskomena", that is, as "useful for reading", but he did not discuss Psalm 151 and the 3rd and 4th Books of the Maccabees.
The Anagignoskomena were never part of the Apocrypha of the King James Bible.
See Bible
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External links
Studying the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonicals/Anagignoskomena, by Chuck Grantham. November 12, 2009 (goulablogger.wordpress.com)
- —a useful overview of the subject for beginners
Septuagint (simplebibletruths.net)
- —a very dense and detailed compilation of source materials which includes brief discussions of the Anagignoskomena—worth careful and patient reading