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Catholic Christianity

Catholic canon, deuterocanonical books, church fathers, councils, saints, mystics, and liturgical tradition.

Mediterranean / Global1st century CE7 readable texts2 indexed sources
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Tobit

Catholic ChristianityApocrypha / Mixed Acceptance

Tobit in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for wider-canon comparison.

Aramaic / Hebrew and Greek transmission· Second Temple period

Judith

Catholic ChristianityApocrypha / Mixed Acceptance

Judith in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for wider-canon comparison.

Hebrew / Greek transmission· Second Temple period

Wisdom of Solomon

Catholic ChristianityApocrypha / Mixed Acceptance

Wisdom of Solomon in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for wisdom, soul, and afterlife comparison.

Greek· 1st century BCE-1st century CE

Sirach / Ecclesiasticus

Catholic ChristianityApocrypha / Mixed Acceptance

Sirach in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for wisdom, law, ethics, and ancestor comparison.

Hebrew with Greek transmission· 2nd century BCE

Baruch

Catholic ChristianityApocrypha / Mixed Acceptance

Baruch in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for exile, wisdom, law, and prophetic comparison.

Hebrew / Greek transmission· Second Temple period

1 Maccabees

Catholic ChristianityApocrypha / Mixed Acceptance

1 Maccabees in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for temple, revolt, martyrdom, and sacred-king comparison.

Hebrew original likely; Greek transmission· 2nd-1st century BCE

2 Maccabees

Catholic ChristianityApocrypha / Mixed Acceptance

2 Maccabees in the public-domain Douay-Rheims / Challoner English tradition for resurrection, martyrdom, temple, and prayer-for-the-dead comparison.

Greek· 2nd-1st century BCE
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Catholic wider biblical books

scripture collectionSecond Temple / Hellenistic Jewish
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Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 Maccabees, and 2 Maccabees are indexed from the DRC public-domain dataset.

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