Let's define the word Apocrypha by different sources...
(www.merriam-webster.com)
Apocrypha is a word that has a medieval Latin origin that means "secret" or not canonical (conforming to a general rule or acceptable procedure) in Greek (apokryphos) it means "obscure", from apokryptein to hide away, from apo- + kryptein --- to hide.
1) writings or statements of dubious authenticity
2) capitalized
a : books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate
but excluded from the Jewish and Protestant
canons of the Old Testament
b : early Christian writings not included in the
New Testament
(www.thefreedictionary.com)
1) (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) the 14 books
included as an appendix to the Old Testament in
Septuagint and the Vulgate but not included in the
Hebrew canon. They are not in Protestant versions
of the Bible.
2) (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) RC Church
Another name for the Pseudepigrapha
[Via Late Latin apocrypha (scripta) hidden (writings), from Greek, apokruptein to hide away]
(Peloubet's Bible Dictionary)
1) The primary meaning of apocrypha, "hidden, secret," seems, toward the close of the second century, to have been associated with signification "spurious," and ultimately to have settled down into the latter. The seperate books of this collection treated of in distinct articles.
Read these "hidden books"
No comments:
Post a Comment