The Apocrypha comprises those books not accepted as part of the Bible when the Hebrew canon was set, but which survived in the Greek scriptures. Early editions of the English Bible included the ...

‘Apocrypha’ means ‘hidden things’, and is the term used to describe the books which were not accepted into the Hebrew Canon, but which survive in the Greek Scriptures. These books were written in the ...

Protestant Christians do not accept these Writings as inspired by God and refer to them as the "Apocrypha". Sometimes this problem is used to defame the Catholic Church. As an example, John ...

So some of the “apocryphal” writings were side-lined, or even suppressed. But the vast majority simply stopped being reproduced. By the end of the 4th Century, the Gospels of Matthew ...