Books Left Out Of The Bible And Why. The apocrypha was removed from the protestant bible altogether at the time of the reformation. These writings date from the second to fourth centuries ad.
According to some estimates, early christians wrote at least twenty gospels that weren't included in the bible. First and second esdras prayer of manasses susanna* *a reader says: They generally refer to the protestant apocrypha as deuterocanonical books, and reserve the term apocrypha for those books entirely outside the biblical canon, which protestants call the pseudepigrapha.
First and second esdras prayer of manasses susanna* *a reader says:
These books are called deuterocanonical by catholics and orthodox and apocryphal by jews and protestants. So, why were certain books left out of the bible? In the year 1611 the holy bible was translated from latin to english; These include 1 and 2 maccabees, judith, tobit, baruch, sirach, and wisdom, and additions to the books of esther and daniel.