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Apocrypha (Gr. apokrupto, hidden; hence, of unknown authorship)
Those books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, but which, at the Reformation, were excluded from the Sacred Canon by the Protestants, mainly on the grounds that they were not originally written in Herbrew and were not looked upon as genuine by the Jews. They are not printed in Protestant Bibles in ordinary circulation, but in the Authorized Version, as printed in 1611, they are given immediately after the Old Testament. The books are as follows:
1 and 2 Esdras
Tobit
Judith
The rest of Esther
Wisdom
Ecclesiasticus
Baruch, with the Epistle of Jeremiah
The Song of the Three Children
The Story of Susanna
The Idol Bel and the Dragon
1 and 2 Maccabees
The New Testament also has a large number of apocryphal books more or less attached to it. These consist of later gospels and epistles, apocalypses, etc., as well as such recently discovered fragments as the Logia (sayings of Jesus) of the Oxyrhynchus papyrus. The best known books of the New Testament apocrypha are:
Protevangelium, or the Book of James
Gospel of Nicodemus, or the Acts of Pilate
The Ascents of James
The Acts of Paul and Thecla
Letters of Abgarus to Christ
Epistles of Paul to the Laodiceans, and to the Alexan- drines, and the Third Epistle to the Corinthians
The Teaching of the Apostles (Didaché) The three Books of the Shepherd of Hermas
