Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible

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The non-canonical books referenced in the Bible include known, unknown, or otherwise lost non-Biblical cultures' works referenced in the Bible. The Bible, in Judaism, consists of the Hebrew Bible; Christianity refers to the Hebrew Bible as the Old Testament, with a canon including the New Testament. Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible include the Biblical apocrypha and Deuterocanon.

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It may also include books of the Anagignoskomena (Deuterocanonical books § In Eastern Orthodoxy) that are accepted in only Eastern Orthodoxy. For the purposes of this article, "referenced" can mean direct quotations, paraphrases, or allusions, which in some cases are known only because they have been identified as such by ancient writers or the citation of a work or author.

Hebrew Bible

The following are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible:

Deuterocanon / Apocrypha

New Testament

Mennonite scholar David Ewart has mentioned that Nestle's Greek New Testament lists some 132 New Testament passages that appear to be verbal allusions to paracanonical books. [44]

Pagan authors quoted or alluded to are: [45] [46]

Non-canonical books quoted or alluded to are: [45]

See also

References

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  2. Joshua 10:13
  3. 2 Samuel 1:18
  4. 1 Kings 8:53
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  8. 1 Kings 16:20
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  14. 1 Chronicles 27:24
  15. 1 Chronicles 29:29
  16. 2 Chronicles 9:29
  17. 2 Chronicles 16:11
  18. 2 Chronicles 27:7
  19. 1 2 2 Chronicles 32:32
  20. 2 Chronicles 20:34
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  22. 2 Chronicles 26:22
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  25. 2 Chronicles 33:19
  26. 2 Chronicles 35:25
  27. Esther 2:23
  28. Esther 6:1
  29. Esther 10:2
  30. Nehemiah 12:23
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  32. Tobit 2:10
  33. Tobit 11:18
  34. Tobit 14:10
  35. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 See footnote to the Biblical passage in The Jerusalem Bible , Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1966
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  39. 1 Maccabees 16:23–24
  40. 2 Maccabees 2:1
  41. 2 Maccabees 2:13
  42. 2 Maccabees 2:23
  43. 2 Maccabees 11:22
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  49. Loeb Classical Library Euripides VIII, fragment 1024
  50. 1 Corinthians 15:33
  51. Titus 1:12–13
  52. Acts 17:28
  53. Jude 1:4
  54. Jude 1:6
  55. Jude 1:13
  56. Jude 1:14–15
  57. 2 Peter 2:4
  58. 2 Peter 3:13
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  63. "Matthew 26:52".
  64. "Exodus 21:23-25".
  65. 2 Timothy 3:8
  66. Colossians 4:16
  67. 2 Corinthians 11:14
  68. 2 Corinthians 12:2
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  70. Jude 9
  71. Hebrews 11:37
  72. 1 Corinthians 5:9
  73. Ephesians 3:3
  74. Danker, Frederick William, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed., 867
  75. Acts 24:5
  76. 1 Corinthians 15:45
  77. Genesis 2:7
  78. 1 Corinthians 2:9
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  80. Isaiah 64:4
  81. Luke 24:46
  82. Hosea 6:2
  83. Mark 9:12