Apocrypha

The Apocrypha is the biblical literature not forming part of the accepted canon of Scripture. The word Apocrypha means hidden writing. The name was given to it by the Jews to distinguish it from the books which they accepted as canonical.

There are altogether sixteen books in this category composed by Jews, after the close of the Hebrew canon, which though without the unction of the prophetic books of the canon, are instinct, for most part, with the wisdom which rests on the fear of God and loyalty to His law.