IIRC, in simple terms, they're the seven books (hence also the term Septuagint) that were originally in Hebrew, but which only exist in Greek now, that Luther excised from his Bible (along with other books) because some of the Jewish sects were excising them as well (and because they contained things like the idea of praying for the dead). The Wikipedia article seems pretty straightforward.
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Date: 2008-03-22 07:02 pm (UTC)From:IIRC, in simple terms, they're the seven books (hence also the term Septuagint) that were originally in Hebrew, but which only exist in Greek now, that Luther excised from his Bible (along with other books) because some of the Jewish sects were excising them as well (and because they contained things like the idea of praying for the dead). The Wikipedia article seems pretty straightforward.
me too! :-D