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Apocrypha > noun, communication
Meaning14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible. Eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic church) accept all these books as canonical. The Russian Orthodox church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status.
Part ofOld Testament
PartsAdditions to Esther; Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children; Susanna, Book of Susanna; Bel and the Dragon; Baruch, Book of Baruch; Letter of Jeremiah, Epistle of Jeremiah; Tobit, Book of Tobit; Judith, Book of Judith; I Esdra, 1 Esdras; II Esdras, 2 Esdras; Ben Sira, Sirach, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach; Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom; I Maccabees, 1 Maccabees; II Maccabees, 2 Maccabees
Category ofJudith; Holofernes
Broadersacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text
AdjectivesApocryphal

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