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The Books of History: Clarifying readability of the first sentence of the penultimate paragraph by using em dashes and ampersands.
#[[III Maccabees]] (English bible)
In the [[Holy Scripture|canon]] of the Orthodox Church, which Church—which is generally that of the [[Septuagint]], the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, 1 and Bible—1 & 2 Samuel are called 1 and & 2 Kings, ; and 1 and & 2 Kings are called 3 and & 4 Kings. Also, the so-called apocryphal books, listed above (I Esdras, II Esdras, Tobit, Judith, I Maccabees, II Maccabees, III Maccabees, IV Maccabees), are considered by the Orthodox as genuine parts of the Bible. The Old Testament apocrypha is a body of writings considered by the non-Orthodox to be of close association with the Bible, but not actually part of its official canonical contents.
The historical books of the Bible were written well after the events described in them actually took place.