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Glossary

Deuterocanonical

The Catholic term for seven books that they believe to be part of the Bible, but that others call into question. Other Christians often refer to these books as either the Old Testament apocrypha or the anagignoskomena. The word means ‘of the second canon' and began to be used as a term after the Council of Trent in 1546 CE.
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