(from the Greek: "secondarily canonical").
Expression used for the first time by Sixtus Senense (1569) and which is the adjective that Roman Catholic exegetes give to those books that the Catholic versions have extra with respect to the Hebrew and Protestant canon.
Protestants call them apocrypha.
The problem arises only for the Old Testament, since for the New all Christians accept only 27 books as inspired.
Webster defines these books, which Rome has placed on the same level as the rest of the Scriptures since Trent, as "a second canon of ecclesiastical writings with less authority than the Holy Books."
These deuterocanonical books are:
Tobias,
Judith,
Wisdom,
Ecclesiastical,
2 Esdras,
1 and 2 Maccabees.
In the New Testament, the Church of Ethiopia came to count 35 books as canonical, while that of Syria admitted only 22.
But officially today the acceptance of 27 in the New Testament is unanimous for canonical purposes.
Meaning of DEUTEROCANONICAL
Expression used for the first time by Sixtus Senense (1569) and which is the adjective that Roman Catholic exegetes give to those books that the Catholic versions have extra with respect to the Hebrew and Protestant canon.
