The word “Apocrypha” commonly denotes the fourteen or fifteen books which are present in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Old Testament but which are not included in the canon of the Hebrew Old ...

*Back in the year 496, there was agreement reached, more or less, on what was regarded as holy writ, and also there was rather a lot of heretical apocrypha circulating around that needed to be cleaned ...

Many Protestants are unaware that the Bible used in Catholic churches contains books not found in Protestant Bibles -- namely, the books of the apocrypha. (The word comes from a Greek term that means ...