The so-called “deuterocanonical” books of the Catholic Old Testament include Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 Maccabees, and 2 Maccabees.

But what makes a book deuterocanonical? How did these books become part of the Scriptural canon in the first place?

In this episode of Stunned by Scripture, Dr. John Bergsma addresses three common misconceptions about the Deuterocanonical books and the Old Testament Biblical canon:

• they are a specific collection
• they were part of the "Alexandrian canon"
• they were rejected because they were not written in Hebrew.

Dive deeper into your knowledge of the Bible with John Bergsma in Stunned by Scripture.

00:00 Introduction
01:33 First Misconception
04:55 Second Misconception
10:56 Third Misconception
12:36 Conclusion

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