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The Prayer of Manasseh is considered apocryphal by [[Judaism|Jews]], [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholics]] and [[Protestantism|Protestants]]. Although it was part of the Vulgate, it was not included in the [[Biblical Canon|Biblical canon]] of the [[Council of Trent]] (1546). It is accepted as a [[Deuterocanonicals|deuterocanonical book]] by some [[Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christians]], though it does not appear in Bibles printed in [[Greece]].

The Prayer of Manasseh is considered apocryphal by [[Judaism|Jews]], [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholics]] and [[Protestantism|Protestants]]. Although it was part of the Vulgate, it was not included in the [[Biblical Canon|Biblical canon]] of the [[Council of Trent]] (1546). It is accepted as a [[Deuterocanonicals|deuterocanonical book]] by some [[Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christians]], though it does not appear in Bibles printed in [[Greece]].

The prayer appears in ancient Syriac, Old Slavonic, Ethiopic, and [[Armenian Church|Armenian]] translations.<ref name="NET Bible"/><ref>''The shorter books of the Apocrypha: Tobit, Judith, Rest of Esther, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah, additions to Daniel and Prayer of Manasseh.'' Commentary by J. C. Dancy, with contributions by W. J. Fuerst and R. J. Hammer. Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1972. ISBN 16230423</ref> In the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Church|Ethiopian Bible]], the text of this prayer appears within ''II Paraleipomenon'', within [[2 Chronicles]], in chapter 33, between verses 19 and 20. It was placed at the end of [[2 Chronicles]] in the late 4th-century [[Vulgate]]. The Prayer of Manasseh is also found included in certain editions of the Greek [[Septuagint]]; for example, the fifth century [[Codex Alexandrinus]]. Some editions of the Septuagint include the Prayer among the fourteen [[Book of Odes|Odes]], as forming a part of the [[Book of Odes (Bible)|Book of Odes]] appearing just after the [[Psalms]].<ref name="NET Bible">[http://www.bible.org/netbible/prm1_notes.htm NET Bible]</ref><ref>The Odes forms an appendix to the book of Psalms in three Greek biblical manuscripts ('''A''', 5th cent.; '''T''', 7th cent.; '''55''', 10th cent.) and in some daughter translations. A few Syriac MSS append the prayer to 2 Chronicles. —Prayer of Manasseh, George W. E. Nickelsburg, in The Oxford Bible Commentary.</ref>  Over a millennium later, it was part of the 1537 [[Matthew Bible]], and it was printed at the end of [[2 Chronicles|II Paralipomenon]] in the Latin Vulgate and the 1599 [[Geneva Bible]]. [[Martin Luther]] included the book in his 74-book translation of the Bible (''posthumously published'', 1570?).<ref>http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2011/06/luther-added-books-to-his-bible.html</ref> [[Pope Clement VIII]] included the Prayer in an appendix to the Vulgate stating that it should continue to be read "lest it perish entirely." It also appears in the [[apocrypha]] of the [[King James Bible]].

The prayer appears in ancient Syriac, Old Slavonic, Ethiopic, and [[Armenian Church|Armenian]] translations.<ref name="NET Bible"/><ref>''The shorter books of the Apocrypha: Tobit, Judith, Rest of Esther, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah, additions to Daniel and Prayer of Manasseh.'' Commentary by J. C. Dancy, with contributions by W. J. Fuerst and R. J. Hammer. Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1972. ISBN 16230423</ref> In the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Church|Ethiopian Bible]], the text of this prayer appears within ''II Paraleipomenon'', within [[2 Chronicles]], in chapter 33, between verses 19 and 20. It was placed at the end of [[2 Chronicles]] in the late 4th-century [[Vulgate]]. The Prayer of Manasseh is also found included in certain editions of the Greek [[Septuagint]]; for example, the fifth century [[Codex Alexandrinus]]. Some editions of the Septuagint include the Prayer among the fourteen [[Book of Odes|Odes]], as forming a part of the [[Book of Odes (Bible)|Book of Odes]] appearing just after the [[Psalms]].<ref name="NET Bible">[http://www.bible.org/netbible/prm1_notes.htm NET Bible]</ref><ref>The Odes forms an appendix to the book of Psalms in three Greek biblical manuscripts ('''A''', 5th cent.; '''T''', 7th cent.; '''55''', 10th cent.) and in some daughter translations. A few Syriac MSS append the prayer to 2 Chronicles. —Prayer of Manasseh, George W. E. Nickelsburg, in The Oxford Bible Commentary.</ref>  Over a millennium later, it was part of the 1537 [[Matthew Bible]], and it was printed at the end of [[2 Chronicles|II Paralipomenon]] in the Latin Vulgate and the 1599 [[Geneva Bible]]. [[Martin Luther]] included the book in his 74-book translation of the Bible (''posthumously published'', 1570?).<ref>[http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2011/06/luther-added-books-to-his-bible.html Beggars All Reformation. Sunday, June 05, 2011. Luther Added Books to His Bible?] (beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com)</ref> [[Pope Clement VIII]] included the Prayer in an appendix to the Vulgate stating that it should continue to be read "lest it perish entirely." It also appears in the [[apocrypha]] of the [[King James Bible]].

The ''[[Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion]]'' of the [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Protestant Episcopal Church]] (Article VI: "Of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation") includes the Prayer of Manasseh among "the other Books (as [[Jerome|Hierome]] saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine".<ref>[http://anglicansonline.org/basics/thirty-nine_articles.html Anglicans Online: '''Articles of Religion.''' As established by the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in Convention, on the twelfth day of September, in the Year of our Lord, 1801.]</ref>

The ''[[Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion]]'' of the [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Protestant Episcopal Church]] (Article VI: "Of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation") includes the Prayer of Manasseh among "the other Books (as [[Jerome|Hierome]] saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine".<ref>[http://anglicansonline.org/basics/thirty-nine_articles.html Anglicans Online: '''Articles of Religion.''' As established by the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in Convention, on the twelfth day of September, in the Year of our Lord, 1801.]</ref>