In one quote from St. Augustine, he even lists the canon of the Old Testament and it includes ... order . . . such as Job and Tobit and Esther and Judith and the two books of Maccabees, and ...

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following ... to the order of events in time which they narrate (Genesis to Esther); 2) Didactic or sapiential or moral books, which are so called ...

In Roman Catholic and Orthodox Old Testaments, the Book of Tobit (or Tobias) and Judith come before Esther. These books, ...