books. The great biblical scholar St. Jerome (d. 420) made a distinction between “canonical books” and “ecclesiastical books,” only, however, after he had moved to the Holy Land and come under the influence of his Jewish teachers.2 The “ecclesiastical books,” which came to be known as the deuterocanonical books, Jerome did not accept as Sacred Scripture. The contemporary St. Augustine (d. 430) disagreed with Jerome’s distinction, accepting the ancient tradition of the Church that all the books in