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3 THE SECOND DIVISION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

There are nine books in this part. The authenticity of these
books has been a point of great controversy among Christians.
The Protestant faith, for instance, does not acknowledge the
divine origin of these books, and they have discarded them from
their Bible. They do not form part of the King James version of

the Bible. The collection of these nine books and five other books
together are called the Apocrypha.

1 THE BOOK OF ESTHER

Esther was a Jewish woman who was among the captives

from Jerusalem in Babylon. Ahasuerus, the king of Persia, was
unhappy with his first wife and he married Esther. Aman, a
minister of the king, had some differences with Mardochaeus, the