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With respect to the Deuterocanonical books there are two alternative points of view: either they belong to the Old Testament, or they belong to the Old Testament Apocrypha. The category structure that represents the two alternative views best is:
Old Testament - Hebrew Bible
Old Testament - Deuterocanonical books (one view)
Old Testament apocrypha - Deuterocanonical books (other view)
Old Testament apocrypha - Old Testament pseudepigraphica
Thank you, I understand your points now. Near the end of the 2007 discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_June_29#Tanakh, I proposed a hierarchy in a graphic which placed "OT Apocrypha" under "OT", and I then implemented that. However, I note now that only user:Johnbod commented on the graphic/hierarchy as a whole, and the "apocrypha" part was peripheral to that discussion. Although I had been relying on that 2007 CFD as establishing consensus, I now accept that it did not specifically do so for the apocrypha/ deuterocanon hierarchy.
The difficulty is that your summary of views omits the Eastern Orthodox views, which count varying members of the "few others" as deuterocanonical. The widest view of these are currently in Category:Anagignoskomena, which is being discussed at CFD November 12. It looks unlikely to be merged, in which case we should probably modify your conclusion: both the deuterocanon and anagignoskomena should be child categories of both Old Testament and of Old Testament apocrypha.
I suggest we wait for the outcome of that CFD before changing the hierarchy, but I withdraw my objection to your proposal.
This one is confusing. As the intended purpose is to apparently deal specifically with the deuterocanonical books, I might prefer scrapping this particular category completely, or maybe add text to the category itself clearly indicating that it is limited to those works included in the Catholic Bible but not the Protestant Bible. For all other canonical variations, I might favor more specific categories like for instance "books of the Old Testament of the Syriac Orthodox Church" or similarly phrased categories, or variant phrasing for any contested NT works. John Carter (talk) 19:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]