Apocrypha

Apocrypha per se are outside the canon, not considered divinely inspired but regarded as worthy of study by the faithful

All the New Testament apocrypha are pseudepigraphal

Jewish scholars produced the Septuagint, a translation of the Old Testament in Greek

Old Testament pseudepigrapha are extremely numerous

The Septuagint was an important basis for St. Jerome’s translation of the Old Testament

The other apocryphal writings, canonical only to Roman Catholicism, with an exception or two, include

The Old Testament contains fragments in Aramaic

Pseudepigrapha are spurious works ostensibly written by a biblical figure.

Deuterocanonical works are those that are accepted in one canon but not in all.

The history of the term’s usage indicates that it referred to a body of esoteric writings.

There are several levels of dubiety within the general concept of apocryphal works in Judeo-Christian biblical writings.

In the early decades of Christianity no orthodoxy had been established.

Most of these works arose from sects that had been or would be declared heretical

Heretical movements such as Gnosticism and Montanism spawned a great body of New Testament pseudepigrapha.

Alternates title for the Apocrypha is:

When Greek was the common spoken language, the OT,the Hebrew Bible,was incomprehensible to most of the population