The Old Testament

The Church reads the Old Testament in the Septuagint, the Greek text the Apostles quote and the Fathers expound. Alongside the books shared with the Hebrew canon it receives the anagignoskomena, "those that are read": Tobit, Judith, the Wisdom of Solomon, the Wisdom of Sirach, Baruch with the Letter of Jeremiah, the additions to Daniel and to Esther, 1 Esdras, 1 to 3 Maccabees, the Prayer of Manasseh and Psalm 151. Four of those stand in the Greek and Slavonic Bibles and not in the Roman canon. The Orthodox Church has never issued a closed list in the manner of Trent: these books are Scripture by the use the Church makes of them, read in the services and cited by the Fathers.