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     • Also known as the deuterocanonical books, the Apocrypha itself is a collection of fourteen non-inspired volumes found in the Roman Catholic Bibles and a few modern non-Catholic Bibles.
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   What does the Greek word Apocrypha mean?

   • The Greek word “apocrypha” simply means “hidden.” It only came to mean “books outside the biblical canon” during the Protestant Reformation many centuries after the books of the Apocrypha were written. Martin Goodman notes that this term was never used in antiquity to designate a group of separate books outside the canon.

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   What is the Biblical apocrypha?

   • The biblical apocrypha (from Ancient Greek ἀπόκρυφος (apókruphos) 'hidden') denotes the collection of apocryphal ancient books thought to have been written some time between 200 BC and 100 AD. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ]

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   How many apocrypha books were left out of the Bible?

   • The Apocrypha is a list of 14 books that were left out of the Hebrew Bible canon. In this article, I’ll identify the 14 books, describe them for you briefly, and tell you why they were left out of the Jewish canon. What is the Meaning of Apocrypha? The Greek word “apocrypha” simply means “hidden.”

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   What is a Jewish apocrypha?

   • The Jewish apocrypha, known in Hebrew as הספרים החיצונים (Sefarim Hachizonim: "the external books"), are books written in large part by Jews, especially during the Second Temple period, not accepted as sacred manuscripts when the Hebrew Bible was canonized.

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   Is Apocrypha a canon?

   • In “Apocrypha, Old, and New Testament” it explains that “The Books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are not part of the canon of the Scripture; and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings.”

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   Which apocryphal books are included in the Old Testament?

   • While there were other apocryphal books of the Old Testament and pseudepigrapha—“pseudonymous works ascribed to the sages of the past, such as Enoch, Moses, and Solomon,” according to W.D. McHardy in “General Introduction to the Apocrypha”—the “mystery” books that are usually included in the Apocrypha are as follows: 1 and 2 Maccabees.

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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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   The biblical apocrypha (from Ancient Greek ἀπόκρυφος (apókruphos) 'hidden') denotes the collection of apocryphal ancient books thought to have been written some time between 200 BC and 100 AD. [1][2][3][4][5]

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   May 23, 2024 · When Martin Luther translated the Bible, the great Reformer chose to include the Apocrypha but didn’t like it. He called these books apocryphal, that is, texts of dubious origin, and disqualified by their very nature from being part of the Holy Scriptures.

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   Nov 5, 2019 · ABSTRACT: The Apocrypha is a collection of books written in the four centuries between the Old and New Testaments. Though the Apocrypha is not Scripture, many Protestants (including Luther, Calvin, and other Reformers) have found the collection useful historically, theologically, and spiritually.

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   Jan 5, 2024 · Roman Catholic Bibles have several more books in the Old Testament than Protestant Bibles. These books are referred to as the Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical books. The word apocrypha means “hidden,” while the word deuterocanonical means “second canon.”.

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   Apocrypha are biblical or related writings not forming part of the accepted canon of scripture, some of which might be of doubtful authorship or authenticity. [1] . In Christianity, the word apocryphal (ἀπόκρυφος) was first applied to writings that were to be read privately rather than in the public context of church services.

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    The Old Testament Apocrypha, often referred to simply as "the Apocrypha, " is a collection of Jewish books that are included in the Old Testament canons of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians, but not of Protestants.