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1. • • The Apocryphon of John, also called the Secret Book of John or the Secret Revelation of John, is a 2nd-century Sethian Gnostic Christian pseudepigraphical text attributed to John the Apostle.
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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jewish_apocryphaJewish apocrypha - Wikipedia

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   The Jewish apocrypha (Hebrew: הספרים החיצוניים, romanized: HaSefarim haChitzoniyim, lit. 'the outer books') are religious texts written in large part by Jews, especially during the Second Temple period, not accepted as sacred manuscripts when the Hebrew Bible was canonized.

3. www.chabad.org › library › article_cdoWhat Is the Jewish Approach to the Apocrypha? - Chabad.org

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   When discussing the Jewish view on the Apocrypha, it is helpful to split it up into three categories: 1. Antithetical to Jewish Scripture. Some of these books contain stories or ideas that contradict Scripture and/or Jewish thought.

   • Author: Yehuda Shurpin

4. www.bartehrman.com › apocryphaWhat is the Apocrypha? The 14 Books Left Out of the Bible

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   • Tobit, written 225-175 BCE. This book tells the story of two Israelite people, a blind man named Tobit living in Nineveh and a woman named Sarah, living in a city called Ecbatana.
   • Judith, written about 100 BCE. Judith, a Jewish widow, attracts and seduces an Assyrian general besieging her city. Having ingratiated herself with him, she waits until he is drunk and then decapitates him, saving the capital Jerusalem from total destruction.
   • Esther, written around 115 BCE. Although the Hebrew version of Esther is canonical, the Greek translation adds six sections to it. Esther is the story of an Israelite woman who saves her people from an anti-Israelite Persian plot.
   • Wisdom of Solomon, written around 50 BCE. This book centers on the importance of Wisdom as related to humans and to God. It may have influenced the famous prologue of the Gospel of John, with wisdom replaced by the “Word.”

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6. www.britannica.com › topic › apocryphaApocrypha | Biblical Literature, Jewish & Christian Texts ...

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   Apocrypha, (from Greek apokryptein, “to hide away”), in biblical literature, works outside an accepted canon of scripture. The history of the term’s usage indicates that it referred to a body of esoteric writings that were at first prized, later tolerated, and finally excluded.

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   The Apocryphon of John, also called the Secret Book of John or the Secret Revelation of John, is a 2nd-century Sethian Gnostic Christian pseudepigraphical text attributed to John the Apostle. It is one of the texts addressed by Irenaeus in his Against Heresies, placing its composition before 180 AD.

8. www.myjewishlearning.com › article › apocrypha-and-pApocrypha and Pseudepigrapha | My Jewish Learning

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   One such set is called “Apocrypha” (meaning hidden things in Greek) and refers to a set of works deemed canonical by the Egyptian Jewish community, based in Alexandria, but not included in the smaller canon of the Palestinian Jewish community which became the present-day Tanakh.

9. www.britannica.com › topic › biblical-literatureBiblical literature - Intertestamental, Apocrypha ...

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   When the Protestant churches returned to the Jewish canon (Hebrew Old Testament) during the Reformation period (16th century), the Catholic deuterocanonical works became for the Protestants “apocryphal”—i.e., non-canonical.