A Bibliographic Guide to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigraph

Abstract

""Apocrypha" and "Pseudepigrapha" are tenns used to label a large body of early Jewish and early Christian literature written between the third century BCE and the first centuries of the common era. The Apocrypha (or Deuterocanonical Books) exists as a collection because of the reading practices of early Christians, who placed an especially high value on these texts and often included them in codices of their Scriptures (the Septuagint), and by ongoing canonical debates about the extent of the Old Testament within the Christian Church. Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches include these books as part of the Old Testament; Protestant Christians, following the Jewish canon, do not. Hence, the "Apocrypha" is the overlap"