For Apocrypha we have terms and definitions in 6 topics. The topics are Bible Study, Dead Sea, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish History, Judaism and New Age.

Apocrypha (Bible Study)

The Apocrypha consists of the material in the Septuagint that does not appear in the Hebrew Bible. Anglicans, Methodists, Lutherans, and others use the Apocrypha as a worship resource and as instruction in faith and morals, but do not use it to formulate doctrine. The Roman Catholic Church and the eastern churches use it as part of the Old Testament. The Apocrypha contains the history of the Maccabean revolt, which is vital to understanding the political backdrop of the New Testament and the origin of the Jewish holiday of Hanukah.

Apocrypha (Dead Sea)

Books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate but excluded from Jewish and Protestant canons of the Old Testament.

Apocrypha (Dead Sea Scrolls)

Books by, primarily, Jewish authors written between 150 BCE and 100 CE, included in the Septuagint and Vulgate but excluded from Jewish and Protestant canons of the Old Testament. For Catholics the word has a much broader meaning to include all extra biblical books of unknown authorship.

Apocrypha (Jewish History)

(adj. apocryphal). From the Greek, meaning "to hide" or "to uncover." It is used in a technical sense to refer to certain Jewish books written in the Hellenistic-Roman period that came to be included in the Old Greek scriptures (and thus in the Eastern Christian biblical canon) and in the Latin Vulgate Roman Catholic canon, but not in the Jewish or Protestant biblical canons. See also Bible, Septuagint.

Apocrypha (Judaism)

(adj. apocryphal). From the Greek, meaning "to hide" or "to uncover." It is used in a technical sense to refer to certain Jewish books written in the Hellenistic-Roman period that came to be included in the Old Greek scriptures (and thus in the Eastern Christian biblical canon) and in the Latin Vulgate Roman Catholic canon, but not in the Jewish or Protestant biblical canons. See also Bible, Septuagint.

Apocrypha (New Age)

Books by, primarily, the Jewish doctors written between 150 BCE and 100 CE, included in theSeptuagint andVulgate but excluded from Jewish and Protestant cannons of the Old Testament.

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