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Apocrypha
The Catholic Church calls these Deuterocanonical Books, because the form a 'second' canon. Another name for them is Apocryphal Books.
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The apocrypha was NOT included in the Bible. These are the books rejected by Jews who cannonized the scriptures.
Maccabees (Macc.)
The Apocrypha are several books not accepted by all Christians. The Deuterocanon is a subset of Apocrypha used by the Catholic Church, that include all but 3 of the Apocrypha of the 1611 King James Bible.
APOCRYPHA
None were deleted, but there are 16 books in the Apocrypha that are not in the canonized Bible.
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The Apocrypha. See lists below:
The books that are not included in the Bible are generally called the apocrypha and the pseudepigrapha.
Apocrypha refers to a group of 14 books as part of the Old Testament and is already plural. However, it is usually used with a singular verb.