DEUTEROCANONICAL TEXTSLibrary of Scrolls

The Apocryphal & Deuterocanonical Scrolls

Qumran · Judean Desert; Sirach also preserved in the Cairo Genizah (Cambridge)c. 2nd c. BCE – 1st c. CE

"All wisdom cometh from the Lord, and is with him for ever." — Hebrew fragments of Sirach (Ben Sira) were found among the scrolls, proving the book circulated among Jews in the late Second Temple period.

Scrolls of the books preserved in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Orthodox canons but largely absent from the Masoretic Hebrew Bible and the Protestant Old Testament. Their presence at Qumran shows they were read by Jews in the late Second Temple era.

CONTENTS & SIGNIFICANCE

Tobit (4QTobᵃ, 4QTobᵇ)c. 1st c. BCE
Aramaic fragments of Tobit, closely matching the form known to the Septuagint.
View the fragment
Sirach / Ben Sira (2Q18, 11Q5)c. 2nd–1st c. BCE
Hebrew fragments of Sirach, confirming its Jewish origin and circulation.
View the Genizah fragment
The Epistle of Jeremiah (7QEpJer)c. 1st c. BCE
A short deuterocanonical text included in the Septuagint and Orthodox Bibles.
In the DSS archive
Enoch material (4QEnc)c. 3rd–1st c. BCE
Aramaic Enoch writings overlapping with the Ethiopian Orthodox canon.
View the fragment

Source citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books