There is also an early Arabic recension, but its relation to the Hebrew and to the Arabic 2 Maccabees is still obscure.

They hived off the ones not in the Hebrew canon and called them the Apocrypha, which disposed, for instance, of 2 Maccabees.

But he speaks unfavorably of several other apocryphal productions, as of Baruch and 2 Maccabees.