at the Clavier. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the title of James Agee's 1941 chronicle of Alabama sharecroppers, was taken from Ecclesiasticus 44:1: "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us." In his spiritual autobiography Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, John Bunyan recounts how God strengthened him against the temptation to despair of his salvation by inspiring him with the words, "Look at the generations of old and see: did any ever trust in God, and were confounded?" See also Jewish apocrypha New Testament apocrypha Pseudepigrapha References Further reading Texts Robert Holmes and James Parsons, Vet. Test. Graecum cum var. lectionibus (Oxford, 1798–1827) Henry Barclay Swete, Old Testament in Greek, i.-iii. (Cambridge, 1887–1894) Otto Fridolinus Fritzsche, Libri Apocryphi V. T. Graece (1871) Commentaries O. F. Fritzsche and Grimm, Kurzgef. exeget. Handbuch zu den Apok. des A.T. (Leipzig, 1851–1860) Edwin Cone Bissell, Apocrypha of the Old Testament (Edinburgh, 1880) Otto Zöckler, Die Apokryphen des Alten Testaments (Munchen, 1891) Henry Wace, The Apocrypha ("Speaker's Commentary") (1888) Introductions Emil Schürer, Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes, vol. iii. 135 sqq., and his article on "Apokryphen" in Herzog's Realencykl. i. 622–53 Metzger, Bruce M. An Introduction to the Apocrypha. [Pbk. ed.]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, cop. 1957. External links "The Apocrypha, Bridge of the Testaments" by Robert C. Dentan "Lutheran Cyclopedia: Apocrypha" at lcms.org "Apocrypha" in the Catholic Encyclopaedia at newadvent.org/cathen Biblical apocrypha Deuterocanonical books Development of the Christian biblical canon