The issue of Apocrypha titles has been discussed in the RDA historical documents:
In particular, http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5lc8.pdf http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5lc8-alaresp.pdf List of documents at: http://www.rda-jsc.org/working2.html#lc-8 The original proposal included removing "O.T. Apocrypha" from individual titles of the Protestant Apocrypha, but this did not make it into RDA. Using the Authorized Version list of titles was considered an "arbitrary simplification", "biased", but a "necessary evil". That would mean that Catholic canon books in the Protestant Apocrypha would have "Apocrypha" as part of the preferred title. I think one needs to draw some Venn diagrams to see what books of the Bible are covered in each set of instructions in RDA: ****** For RDA 6.23.2.9.2 "For books of the Catholic or Protestant canon, record the brief citation form of the Authorized Version as a subdivision of the preferred title for the Bible" the governing list is the list of books in the Authorized Version, regardless of the Catholic canon. ****** For RDA 6.23.2.9.4 Apocrypha "For an individual book use the name of the book as a further subdivision", the list is in the Protestant Apocrypha: "1-2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Rest of Esther, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, History of Susanna, Song of the Three Children, Bel and the Dragon, Prayer of Manasses, 1-2 Maccabees". ... meaning "Bible. Apocrypha. Tobit" is the preferred title. ****** For RDA 6.23.2.6 Apocryphal Books. This is for all that's leftover that is not in the Catholic canon or the Protestant Apocrypha "(i.e., one included neither in the Catholic canon nor in the Protestant Apocrypha)". ****** Thomas Brenndorfer Guelph Public Library
