Apocrypha, Deuterocanonical, Pseudopigrapha

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How did certain books of the Bible come to bear these designations?
 
Apocrypha books are books that fall out side of the cannon of scripture. Protestants would say that the books that we have in our bible that they don’t are apocrypha books.

Deuterocanonical are the books that Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox have in the old testament that the Jewish people don’t.

Pseudopigrapha are books that are falsely attributed. The real author of the book is attributing the authorship to someone in the past.

Hope this helps,

Nathan
 
Apocrypha=Hidden books, books to be used only by initiates, often in gnostic sects.
Deuterocanonical= Secondary canon, books that in the early church were not shared by all churches or seen as inspired but less inspired that others. There were old and new testament deuterocanonicals.
Pseudopygrapha= Books that were falsely atributed to a respect author.
 
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