Apocrypha’ means ‘hidden’ in Greek, but it is often used to describe texts that are outside the official biblical canon.

Have you noticed any or all of the following? A mail-order catalogue of household bric-a-brac encouraging you to buy and read “The Missing Books of the Bible”(2 vols. for $9.98)? A well-known ...

In December 1945, Muhammad Ali—not the boxer but a peasant farmer from Nag Hammadi, a town of Upper Egypt—uncovered an ancient earthenware jar. Muhammad and his brother broke it open and found books, ...

The term Apocrypha is used to designate a collection of ancient Jewish writings which were written between about 250 B.C. and the early Christian centuries. The Apocryphal books have come to be ...

*Back in the year 496, there was agreement reached, more or less, on what was regarded as holy writ, and also there was rather a lot of heretical apocrypha circulating around that needed to be cleaned ...