Until the sixteenth century, the Apocryphal books were an intrinsic part of the Bible, although often regarded as deuterocanonical ... providing an essentially literal word-for-word approach to the ...

The OT of the most ancient surviving Christian Bible manuscripts - Codex Vaticanus (4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (4th century) and Codex Alexandrinus (5th century) - are Greek Septuagint text.

The Book of Enoch, a widely studied apocryphal text, provides a detailed and impressive account of the Nephilim, briefly mentioned in the Bible. According to the text, these giants were not merely ...