(ke-too-VEEM ah-cha-roh-NEEM) n. A collection of books, including the Books of Maccabees, that were not included in the final redaction of the Bible, but which are, nevertheless, important Jewish texts. Greek for "hidden." Also called Sefarim Chitsonim (outside books), that is, books excluded from the Tanakh.

books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate, but excluded from the Hebrew Bible and Protestant canon. The Apocrypha contains 1 and 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, additions to Esther, The Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (= Ben Sira), Baruch, The Letter of Jeremiah, The Prayer of Azariah and The Song of the Three Young Men, Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of Manasseh and 1 and 2 Maccabees.

Books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate but excluded from Jewish and Protestant canons of the Old Testament.

(not meant for the common man ), the books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate versions of the Old Testament but not in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Bibles sometimes include them in the Old Testament or as an appendix, and sometimes omit them, reports or writings not considered genuine [apocrypha (scripta) hidden writings], of doubtful authenticity, invented, mythical.

A collection of books written from 300 b.c.e.- 70 b.c.e. that were not included in the canonized Hebrew Scriptures.

The word "apocrypha," which comes from the Greek word for "secret or hidden," is often confused with the word " apocalypse." In Christianity, apocryphal books are a body of early Jewish and Christian texts that are noncanonical-- not a part of the Bible. They may be orthodox or heterodox; some almost became a part of the canon whereas others never had a chance. For example, the Acts of Paul and Thecla is an apocryphal book which was included in some early canons of the eastern church. It clearly is composed of legends but provides orthodox teachings. More information...

Books contained in the Septuagint, but not in the Hebrew Bible. Most are accepted by Catholics as canonical (and so are called "Deuterocanonical"), but not by Protestants or Jews.

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From the Greek apokryphos, meaning withheld from the gaze, hidden or secret. The term refers to religious writings not recognized by the canons of the Old and New Testaments. There are apocryphal gospels and apocryphal acts that oppose canonic texts.

A section of the Bible not accepted by all Christians.

rejected books; the writings which were excluded from the Bible

Greek for "hidden things," refers mainly to the deuterocanonical books found in Catholic bibles that were included in the Septuagint translation of the books of the Old Testament, but were not found in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew scriptures. The term is also sometimes applied to certain Christian writings relevant to the study of the early church, but not included in the New Testament canon.

"writings or statements of dubious authenticity."

When the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek (in Alexandria) about 200 BCE, some extra Jewish writings were added to the text. As the Latin Vulgate was based upon the Greek text, the Roman Catholic "Old Testament" include these passages embedded in the text. When the Reformation in the church took place, scholars made translations from the original Hebrew text and the added passages were put into a separate section called the Apocrypha, meaning hidden texts. Although not part of the Jewish canon, some Talmudic Rabbis quoted from them as if they were.

1. The biblical books included in the Vulgate and accepted in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox canon but considered noncanonical by Protestants because they are not part of the Hebrew Scriptures. See table at Bible. 2. Various early Christian writings proposed as additions to the New Testament but rejected by the major canons. 3. Writings or statements of questionable authorship or authenticity.

Books in the Catholic Old Testament that are not included in most Protestant Bibles.

14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status

sections of the Bible which had no original Hebrew text extant when they were translated into Latin from the Greek; these were included in their proper place in the Bible in the Latin Vulgate version, but are relegated to a separate volume in a modern Bible

Books in the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Bible) which were not included in the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Also generally refers to pseudobiblical books composed in the Second Temple period (522 BCE to 70 CE).

Literature considered at different times to be scriptural but which were not ultimately included in the commonly accepted canon of scripture. Some writings are considered apocryphal by some Christians but included in the scripture by others.

A Greek adjective in the neuter plural (from apokruphos, “hidden, concealed”) denotes strictly “things concealed.” Old Testament Apocrypha, specifically the fourteen books written after the Old Testament canon was closed and which, being the least remote from the canonical books, laid strongest claim to canonicity. The body of Jewish literature written between the second century B.C. and the second century A.D., not included in the canon of the Hebrew Bible.

Fourteen books of the Septuagint in the Vulgate but not in the canonical Hebrew Scriptures nor in the Authorized Version

Jewish books written in the Hellenistic-Roman period that came to be included in the Old Greek Jewish scriptures (and thus in the Eastern Christian biblical canon and in the Latin Vulgate Roman Catholic canon), but not in the Jewish or Protestant biblical canons.

A group of books included at one time in authorized Christian versions of the Bible (now generally omitted from Protestant versions.)

The books written before Christ was born which were excluded from the Hebrew canon. The Roman Catholic Church has accepted them as books of the Bible, but Lutherans and Protestants have not. The term is also sometimes used for certain books excluded from the New Testament canon.

The biblical books received by the early church as part of the Greek version of the Old Testament, but not included in the Hebrew Bible, being excluded by the non-Hellenistic Jews from their canon. In date of writing, the Books of the Apocrypha derive from the period 300 B.C. to A.D. 100 (Cross, The Oxford Dictionary Of The Christian Church).

A term used to denote books not regarded as authoritative scripture

Writings tentatively attributed to an author but not proven or universally accepted to be their works. The term was originally applied to certain books of the Bible that were not considered inspired and so were not included in the "sacred canon." Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Middleton, and John Marston all have apocrypha. Apocryphal books of the Bible include the Old Testament's Book of Enoch and New Testament's Gospel of Thomas.

Biblical stories which were not considered to be part of the official canon: those of the Old Testament were reinstated after they haad been excised in Jerome's Vulgate; those of the New Testament were not included in the official Biblical text

a group of books, mainly in Greek, written after the last of the Jewish Prophetic books, but before the books of the New Testament. The Apocrypha is not included in the Jewish (Hebrew) Canon of Scripture, but is included in the Septuagint, and so was included in the earliest Christian translations of the Scriptures. The Apocrypha includes : 1 & 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, the rest of the book of Esther, the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (Ben Sirach), Baruch, a Letter of Jeremiah, the rest of the book of Daniel (Bel and the Dragon, Susannah, the Song of the Three Young Men), the Prayer of Manasseh, and 1 & 2 Maccabees.

(Greek to hide) The books of sacred writings included in the Greek Septuagint (Greek translation of Jewish writings including the Hebrew Pentateuch) and the Latin Vulgate (Roman Catholic Latin translation prepared by Jerome, Hieronymus, circa 400 A.D.), but excluded from Jewish and Protestant Christian Old Testament scriptures.

Certain Old Testament books not considered Canonical but included in Orthodox and Roman Catholic Bibles.

Religious scriptures that not enough of the right people believed in for them to make it into the official book (Bible, Torah, etc.) but are otherwise indistinguishable from the ones that did.

Books which were included in the Greek version of the Bible but not accepted in the Hebrew Bible. They are accepted as Divinely inspired by the Roman Catholic Church, but not accepted as canonical by Jews and Protestants. Apocrypha means 'hidden'.

A collection of fourteen books written after the last book of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and before the first book of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament). It is accepted by the Roman Catholic Church as part of the inspired cannon of the Bible, but is rejected by most Protestant denominations.

Scriptural works which have not been acknowledged as part of the canon but which are similar in form and content to the accepted biblical texts.

Apocrypha (from the Greek word απόκρυφα meaning "those having been hidden away"Specifically, απόκρυφα is the neuter plural of απόκρυφος, a participle derived from αποκρυπτειν, "to hide away".) are texts of uncertain authenticity or writings where the authorship is questioned.

In the context of fiction Apocrypha includes those fictional stories that do not belong within a fictional universe's canon, yet still have some authority relating to that fictional universe. The boundaries between canon, and apocrypha can often be blurred.