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noun14 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 statuspart of:
Definition that contains apocrypha
- wisdom an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC
- judith an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people
- judith Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes
- susanna an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel
- baruch an Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch
- apocryphal of or belonging to the Apocrypha
- holofernes (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith
- additions to esther an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Esther
- 1 maccabees an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus
- ii maccabees an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus