This is a facsimile edition of the late Howard Clark Kee's NRSV Study Apocrypha, first published by Cambridge in 1994 ... shedding new light on the 'hidden texts' of the world of the Bible.

Until the sixteenth century, the Apocryphal books were an intrinsic part of the Bible, although often regarded as deuterocanonical, or of secondary importance. Martin Luther wrote that they were ...