The terms “apocrypha” and “pseudepigrapha” refer to two somewhat vaguely-defined groups of ancient writings. Ordinarily the “Apocrypha” are fourteen books or parts of books found in a section by themselves in Protestant Bibles. All of the Apocrypha are found in Orthodox Bibles, and most of it in Roman Catholic Bibles. This volume mainly contains the Apocrypha–although it omits IV Ezra and and includes III Maccabees, the former included and the latter excluded from the standard Protestant collection.This volume suffers more from the passage of time (it was originally published in 1913) than the second volume of the work. In several cases the editors fell back on older translations rather than doing their own, which dates the work still further. Still, none of these works (except III Maccabees) appear in Charlesworth’s Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, and all were edited by some of the greatest scholars of the time. What they had to say is still worth reading today. If money or shelf space keeps you from buying both volumes of this work, this is the one to bypass. But that’s what I had to do years ago (thanks to shortage of money), and I have often regretted that.