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What does deuterocanonical mean?

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  1. (biblical) Being of the second canon of the Old Testament of the Bible, and not accepted by some Christians. Part of the Apocrypha.
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They are the so-called deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament.
Deuterocanonical works are those that are accepted in one canon but not in all.
The game's storyline is inspired by the Deuterocanonical book of Enoch.
The deuterocanonical book of Wisdom, for example, perhaps develops a fully fledged doctrine of immortality without reference to a future resurrection of the dead.
These have been published in various separate booklets, or serialized in Dia Regno, but the Deuterocanonical books have appeared in recent editions of the Londona Biblio.
I had difficulty accepting Scobie's reasoning for not including the deuterocanonical books as a legitimate part of the canon.

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