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Synonyms
1. Apocrypha
noun. 14 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.
Synonyms
- Book of Tobit
- Book of Judith
- Additions to Esther
- religious writing
- Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children
- Wisdom
- Judith
- I Maccabees
- 1 Maccabees
- 2 Maccabees
- 2 Esdras
- Book of Susanna
- Bel and the Dragon
- Susanna
- 1 Esdras
- Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Baruch
- Letter of Jeremiah
- Sirach
- Book of Baruch
- II Esdras
- I Esdra
- II Maccabees
- Epistle of Jeremiah
- Ben Sira
- sacred text
- sacred writing
- Old Testament
- Ecclesiasticus
- religious text
