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Barber on Sirach's status within Judaism
Michael Barber has an interesting post up, which also links to another interesting post on the status of the Book of Sirach within Ancient Judaism. Possibly this is inspired by the fact that the first readings in our lectionary are currently being taken from the Book of Sirach. The post that Michael links to is…
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Additions to Daniel in Today's Liturgy
Today’s responsive reading involves part of the additions to Daniel considered canonical by Roman Catholics and some of the other more liturgically oriented traditions. That is very fine and well (at least in my opinion, but I’m Catholic). Yet here’s the footnote from the New American Bible: [24] 3,24-90: These verses are inspired additions to…