Editing Prayer of Manasseh (section)

==Canonicity==
The prayer's canonicity is disputed. It appears in ancient [[Syriac language|Syriac]],<ref name="J. H. Charlesworth" /><ref>Syriac manuscripts are preserved in the Mediceo-Laurenziana Library in [[Florence]], Italy (9aI) and in the Syriac manuscripts of the ''[[Didascalia Apostolorum]]'' (especially 10DI and 13 DI). There exist also a tenth-century Syriac manuscript in the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public  Library in [[Leningrad]]; it is Syr. MS, New Series 19, and is abbreviated 10tI.</ref><ref>Ariel Gutman and Wido van Peursen. ''The Two Syriac Versions of the Prayer of Manasseh''. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.</ref> [[Old Slavonic]], [[Ethiopic]], and [[Armenian Apostolic 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|978-0-521-09729-1}}</ref> In the [[Ethiopian Biblical canon|Ethiopian Bible]], the prayer is found in [[2 Chronicles]]. The earliest Greek text is the fifth-century ''[[Codex Alexandrinus]]''.<ref name="J. H. Charlesworth">J. H. Charlesworth, ''The Prayer of Manasseh (Second Century B.C.-First Century A.D.). A New Translation and Introduction'', in [[James H. Charlesworth]] (1985), ''The Old Testament Pseudoepigrapha'', Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., Volume 2, {{ISBN|0-385-09630-5}} (Vol. 1), {{ISBN|0-385-18813-7}} (Vol. 2), p. 625.</ref> A Hebrew manuscript of the prayer was found in [[Cairo Geniza]].<ref>{{Cite journal |title=A Newly Discovered Hebrew Version of the Apocryphal "Prayer of Manasseh" |journal=Jewish Studies Quarterly |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40753171 |last=Leicht |first=Reimund |year=1996 |issue=4 |volume=3 |pages=359–373 |issn=0944-5706}}</ref> It is considered [[apocrypha]]l by [[Judaism|Jews]], [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] and [[Protestantism|Protestants]]. It was placed at the end of [[2 Chronicles]] in the late 4th-century [[Vulgate]]. Over a millennium later, [[Martin Luther]] included the prayer in his 74-book [[Luther Bible|translation of the Bible into German]]. It was part of the 1537 [[Matthew Bible]], and the 1599 [[Geneva Bible]]. It also appears in the [[Biblical apocrypha#Apocrypha of the King James Version|Apocrypha]] of the 1611 [[King James Bible]] and of the original 1609/1610 [[Douay–Rheims Bible|Douai-Rheims Bible]]. [[Pope Clement VIII]] included the prayer in an appendix to the Vulgate.

The prayer is included in some editions of the Greek [[Septuagint]]. For example, the 5th century [[Codex Alexandrinus]] includes the prayer among fourteen [[Book of Odes (Bible)|Odes]] appearing just after the [[Psalms]].<ref name="NET Bible">[http://www.bible.org/netbible/prm1_notes.htm NET Bible]</ref>  It is accepted as a [[deuterocanonical books|deuterocanonical book]] by [[Orthodoxy#Christianity|Orthodox Christians]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=|title=The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version: An Ecumenical Study Bible|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2018|isbn=978-0-19-027605-8|editor-first=Michael D.|editor-last=Coogan|edition=5th|location=New York|pages=1839, 1841|chapter=The Canons of the Bible|oclc=1032375119|display-editors=etal}}</ref>