The British Stamp Act was imposed to tax every printed document late in the 16th century... including Bibles; the Apocrypha was removed to reduce the page count as these were rarely read in Church, and never by the Puritans. Excerpts of from the Apocrypha did however remain where they were, and still are, in the Liturgical Propers.
The "Stamp Act" was another contributing factor to the American Rebellion.
Since we Lutherans used the Luther Bible up until we transitioned to English, (my parish in the 1940's) we had the Apocrypha until that time (our Liturgical Propers, like those of the Anglican Tradition, retain texts from the Apocrypha). Since the only English Bibles readily available were the KJV W/O the Apocrypha, that is what we used. However, from that time forward, English translations of those books were provided by our Publishing Houses. Today there are lots of choices; My Pastor uses both the ESV Catholic Edition, and also the very recent annotated RSV with Apocrypha which is a "protestant" translation by Schuyler: Schuyler Quentel RSV with Apocrypha, Full Yapp Firebrick Red Goatskin Bible - evangelicalbible.com Great reviews by Evangelicals also BTW.
BTW, the conservative Mennonites and Amish here in Ontario still use the Luther Bible C/W Apocrypha.
Lots of theological reasons given to justify their removal after the fact, but truth be known, denial is not just a long river in Africa.
The "Stamp Act" was another contributing factor to the American Rebellion.
Since we Lutherans used the Luther Bible up until we transitioned to English, (my parish in the 1940's) we had the Apocrypha until that time (our Liturgical Propers, like those of the Anglican Tradition, retain texts from the Apocrypha). Since the only English Bibles readily available were the KJV W/O the Apocrypha, that is what we used. However, from that time forward, English translations of those books were provided by our Publishing Houses. Today there are lots of choices; My Pastor uses both the ESV Catholic Edition, and also the very recent annotated RSV with Apocrypha which is a "protestant" translation by Schuyler: Schuyler Quentel RSV with Apocrypha, Full Yapp Firebrick Red Goatskin Bible - evangelicalbible.com Great reviews by Evangelicals also BTW.
BTW, the conservative Mennonites and Amish here in Ontario still use the Luther Bible C/W Apocrypha.
Lots of theological reasons given to justify their removal after the fact, but truth be known, denial is not just a long river in Africa.
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