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The “apocrypha” is still present in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles. Protestant Bibles have gradually removed them since the 1800s, as Protestant denominations do not view them as divinely inspired ...

LOS ANGELES(AP) — In the second century, as the canonical Gospels were being copied and circulated throughout the Roman Empire, another text about the life of Jesus was simultaneously spreading.

The word “Apocrypha” commonly denotes the fourteen or fifteen books which are present in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Old Testament but which are not included in the canon of the Hebrew Old ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not all versions of the Bible contain the same texts. oneclearvision/iStock via Getty Images Plus Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint ...