I always liked the books of Sirach and Wisdom. They seemed to be quite Stoic in tone. I'm thinking the Puritans were not fans of the Apocrypha. Some Protestants considered the books worth reading as non-Canon and stuck them between the Testaments. I think they are interesting historic books, but the Bible is so huge already those extra books make it especially unwieldy. I have a Large Print Good News Bible with Apocrypha--that Bible is gigantic
