To be clear: I was not referring to the manner in which the Christian church later regarded the apocrypha, but the manner in which the Jews in the inter-testame

To be clear: I was not referring to the manner in which the Christian church later regarded the apocrypha, but the manner in which the Jews in the inter-testamental period regarded it. The Jews then, as today, did not regard the apocrypha as scripture. However, I must limit what I wrote above to the Jews in Palestine and the establishment of the Tanakh. There were Jews in Egypt who considered the apocryphal books part of their canon.