Sara J. Tanzer argues that while the works belonging to the Apocrypha are Jewish, these books were “never formed into one collection by Jews”; rather, they should be viewed as a Christian innovation since there is no evidence that they were ever a part of any Jewish translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Moreover, all “the codices which attest a collection of Apocrypha are late (fourth and fifth centuries C.E.) … do not include all the Apocrypha, and they are Christian.”4 This view is shared