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An introduction to the apocrypha

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Apocrypha means 'hidden things' in Greek. The Apocryphal books of the Bible fall into two categories: texts which were included in some canonical version of the Bible at some point, and other texts of a Biblical nature which have never been canonical. those compositions which profess to have been written either by Biblical personages or men in intimate relations with them.

Deutero means behind, or further from, these books called 'Deuterocanonical,' mean 'books added to the canon.' Deutrocanonical books of the Bible are those of or constituting a second or subsequent canon, books which are included in some version of the canonical Bible, but which have been excluded at one time or another, for textual or doctrinal issues.

Such well known works as the Shepherd of Hermas, the Epistle of Barnabas, and Didache:Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, though formerly considered apocryphal, do really belong to patristic literature, and are thus classified independently.

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229 MET i

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New York : Oxford University Press., 1977

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ix, 274p.; 22 cm.

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English

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APOCRYPHA

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