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I added in an explanation of hose the Russian Church labels the different books labeled Deuterocanonical.
The Russians seem to consider these books as Apocrypha. Philaret's [http://www.pravoslavieto.com/docs/eng/Orthodox_Catechism_of_Philaret.htm Catechism] appears to use the Protestant canon. Can anyone with more knowledge add some info on the official Russian view? --'''[[User:Nate|Nate]]''' ([[User talk:Nate|talk]])
The Orthodox official canon is longer than the Protestant one. The Orthodox Canon includes the books that the Catholic church considers "Deuterocanonical." Further, the Russian and Greek Churches each have one book in their canon that the other does not have. One of those books is Tobit, and I forget the other book. However, it's important to note that 4 Esdras is included in Russian Bibles (being named "II Esdras" IIRC), yet is not actually part of the Russian Church's "canon". It's probably included because the Vulgate Bible included it. IIRC, Pope Gelasius said that he included 4 Esdras in the Vulgate so that people wouldn't lose 4 Esdras (probably due to how many texts have been lost over the years). One point that I want to make is that the terms "Deuterocanon" and "Apocrypha" are potentially misleading or confusing terms. In the Russian Church for example, 1 Maccabbees is not "apocryphal" (ie. hidden or non-canonical), nor is it "of secondary authority." 1 Maccabbees is fully canonical. However, 4 Esdras IS noncanonical, apocryphal, secondary, etc. despite it being physically printed historically in Russian Bibles. [[User:Rakovsky|Rakovsky]] ([[User talk:Rakovsky|talk]]) 02:42, March 22, 2021 (UTC)