The New Jerusalem Bible, unlike many Bibles available today, gives the reader the complete text of the ancient Canon of the Scriptures, as it was fixed in the fourth century A.D. Moreover, all the texts, including the deuterocanonical books and passages (those passages not included in the Hebrew Bible but found in the Septuagint Bible of the Jewish Diaspora and canonized as Scripture by the Fathers of the Church) are presented in their original Catholic order not relegated to an Apocryphal appendix.