Development of the Old Testament canon "Apocrypha" ("hidden"). To counter Luther's "heresy", the fourth session of the Catholic Council of Trent in 1546 confirmed that the deuterocanonical books were equally authoritative as the protocanonical in the Canon of Trent in the year Luther died. Following Jerome's "Veritas Hebraica" (truth of the Hebrew) principle, the Protestant Old Testament consists of the same books as the Hebrew Bible, but the order and division of the books are different. Protestants number the Old Testament books at 39, while the Hebrew Bible numbers the same books as 24. The Hebrew Bible counts Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles as one book each,
The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End The Clockwork Testament is a novella by the British author Anthony Burgess. It is the third of Burgess' four "Enderby" novels and was first published in 1974 by Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Publishers. It is usually subtitled "Enderby's End", as it was originally intended to be the last book in the "Enderby" series. However, a further sequel, "Enderby's Dark Lady", followed in 1984. Enderby is a dyspeptic British poet, 56 years old, and "The Clockwork Testament" is an account of his last day alive. The day in question is a cold one in February. He spends