A post shared on X claims that 14 books were removed from the Bible in 1684. Verdict: False The “apocrypha” is still present ...

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 ...

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.

Have you noticed any or all of the following? A mail-order catalogue of household bric-a-brac encouraging you to buy and read “The Missing Books of the Bible”(2 vols. for $9.98)? A well-known ...

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 ...