Didascalicon, Book IV: the order and number of the divine books
Chapter III. On the authors of the divine books
The five books of the Law Moses wrote. The book of Josue is believed to have had as its author him in whose name it is inscribed, that is Josue. The book of Judges they say was written by Samuel. The first part of the book of Samuel Samuel himself wrote, down to his own end; the following part, to the end of the book, David. Jeremias first gathered Malachim into one volume, for before it was scattered through the histories of the individual kings. Isaias, Jeremias, Ezechiel, each wrote the books that are inscribed with their names. The book also of the twelve prophets is marked with the names of its authors, whose names are Osee, Joel, Amos, Abdias, Jonas, Micheas, Nahum, Habacuc, Sophonias, Aggeus, Zacharias and Malachias. These are called minor because their discourses are short, whence also they are comprised in one volume. But Isaias and Jeremias and Ezechiel and Daniel, these four majors, are distinguished each in their own volumes. The book of Job some believe Moses wrote, others one of the prophets, some Job himself. The book of Psalms David published; Esdras afterwards arranged it as it now is, and added the titles. The Parables, Ecclesiastes and the Canticle of Canticles Solomon composed. Daniel was the author of his own book. The book of Esdras is marked with the title of its author, and in its text the discourses of the same Esdras and of Nehemias are contained together. The book of Esther Esdras wrote. The book of Wisdom is nowhere among the Hebrews, and the style itself savors rather of Greek eloquence. Some Jews affirm this to be Philo’s. The book of Ecclesiasticus Jesus the son of Sirach, a Jerusalemite, grandson of the great priest (of whom Zacharias makes mention), most certainly composed.
He is found among the Hebrews, but is held among the apocrypha. Of Judith and Tobias and the books of the Machabees, of which, as Jerome testifies, the second is proved to be rather Greek, by what authors they were written is by no means certain.