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The Apocrypha as a collection
What is the Apocrypha?
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- "A collection of books
- included in the Old Testament of ancient Christian Bibles in Greek or Latin
- but not included in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible." (LBD)
- They have a debated canonical status
- Generally, Judaism and Protestant churches do not view the Apocrypha as canonical or authoritative,
- but the churches of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, and Syriac traditions accept most of them as part of the Old Testament. (LBD)
- Don't confuse with
- NT apocrypha
- OT pseudepigrapha
- Apocalytic literature
The name 'Apocrypha' and other titles for the collection
- Apocrypha means 'hidden',
- A term used by Origen (AD 230) for a collection of texts, but not for this collection. Later applied to this collection.
- Not really a good name for this collection, as no one was hiding them.
- Deuterocanonical means 'second canon'
- Coined in 1566 by Sixtus of Siena.
- Roman Catholic term, distinguished from protocanonical (our 39 canonical books)
- books that are in the Catholic Old Testament canon but are not in the Hebrew Bible
- Not quite synonymous with Apocrypha since there are other groups with larger Apocryphas
- Rabbinic Jews from the period of early Christianity referred to the Apocrypha as “outside books” (LBD)
- Jerome referred to the books as “ecclesiastical,” meaning “useful in church” (LBD)
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