The volume publishes papers read at the tenth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2013. The authors explore various aspects of this literature, with pre-eminent emphasis on their relation to diverse early Jewish texts and traditions; their reactions on Hellenism; and the way they treated as a canonical collection within their history of interpretation.

Xavér Szabó O.F.M. and Géza G. Xeravits, Sapientia College of Theology; József Zsengellér, Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Budapest.