Manuscripts
The Prayer of Manasseh
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- c. 2nd–1st century BC
- Location
- Composed in Greek; preserved in the Septuagint Odes, the Didascalia and the Vulgate appendix
- Discovered
- No copy identified among the Dead Sea Scrolls
Note on contested claims: Scripture in Eastern and Oriental Orthodox tradition; placed in an appendix by Catholic Bibles and in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Berean carries it as an early prayer of repentance, not as Scripture.
Fifteen verses of penitence placed on the lips of Judah's worst king — one of the most-loved prayers of the early church, and in no Hebrew or Protestant Bible.
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