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 (4) The canon here laid down has not governed the historian's practice. He does not scruple to draw upon apocryphal books like 1 Maccabees, nor does he hint that the authorities used in the latter part of the Antiquities, for the period subsequent to "Artaxerxes," are less trustworthy than the rest; he implies, on the contrary, that the whole work is in accordance with "the holy books" (cp. Ant. I. 17; XX. 261).

The reader may consult in particular the works on the Canon of the O.T. by Ryle (pp. 160-66) and Buhl and the article "Bible Canon" in the Jewish Encylopædia.