Post-Biblical

Author: Zhang Jiuxuan
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The "Apocrypha" was originally part of the Christian Bible. After the Middle Ages, Protestants excluded these works from the canonical texts, referring to them as the Apocrypha. The Apocrypha includes biographies of figures, religious stories, wisdom teachings, letters, and prayers, all with strong religious themes but presented in exceptionally vivid and lively forms. Take the female hero Judah, for example. At a critical moment when the city is under siege, she bravely enters the enemy camp, uses the strategy of "love and beauty" to outsmart the enemy commander, and secures his head, thus saving the nation from peril. Young Daniel, on the other hand, stands up in court, upholds justice, and ultimately ensures the innocence of the unjustly accused.