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Concordia Publishing House

Publishing company owned by Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

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Dec 14, 2025
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Which books did Martin Luther place in the Apocrypha and why?

Martin Luther placed the 14 books commonly called the Apocrypha (the deuterocanonical books found in Roman Catholic Bibles — e.g., Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, 1–2 Maccabees, ...

Dec 10, 2025
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What specific books did Martin Luther move to the Apocrypha?

Martin Luther did not “remove” the deuterocanonical books from his Bible; he placed the Roman Catholic deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books in a separate intertestamental section and labeled them “not he...

Dec 14, 2025

How have modern Lutheran churches treated the books Luther placed in the Apocrypha since the Reformation?

Since the Reformation Martin Luther and most Lutheran bodies have treated the Old Testament deuterocanonical books as non‑canonical but “useful and good to read,” often printed in a separate Apocrypha...

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