apocrypha
/əˈpɑkrəfə/
noun
- Religious writings that are not considered part of the official canon of the Bible by some Christian groups, especially the books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate but not in the Hebrew Bible or Protestant Old Testament.
- The Apocrypha includes books like Tobit, Judith, and the Wisdom of Solomon.
- Scholars study the Apocrypha to understand Jewish and early Christian history.
- Many Protestant Bibles place the Apocrypha in a separate section between the Old and New Testaments.
- Writings or statements of doubtful authenticity or authorship.
- The library's rare book room contained a shelf of apocrypha that scholars had long debated.
- Many of the stories attributed to the famous explorer are actually apocrypha.
- The collection of medieval poems was dismissed as apocrypha by most historians.
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