apocrypha

एपोक्रिफा; बाइबलको पुरानो करारका १४ पुस्तक, जुन यहुदी र प्रोटेस्टेन्ट संस्करणमा छैनन्

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