Deuteronomy and the Apocrypha

No. The book of Deuteronomy is one of the five first books of the Old Testament and part of what is sometimes called the ‘Hebrew canon” of Scripture. The so-called Apocrypha in Protestant bibles are those books not written in Hebrew in our extant manuscripts. They are called in Catholic Bibles the “deuterocanonical” books, literally, “the second canon.” These books, because they were written in Greek and not in Hebrew (for the most part), were counted by the Pharisees as uncanonical, that is, not divinely inspired. Recently some portions of them have been found in Hebrew, thus disproving the criterion of the Pharisees.