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There are some exceptions to this trend, however. Some editions of the Revised Standard Version and the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible include not only the Apocrypha listed above, but also 3 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, and Psalm 151. The American Bible Society lifted restrictions on the publication of Bibles with the Apocrypha in 1964.
The Jewish apocrypha is distinctive from the New Testament apocrypha and biblical apocrypha as it is the only one of these collections that works within a Jewish theological framework. [ 30 ] Although Orthodox Jews believe in the exclusive canonization of the current 24 books in the Hebrew Bible , they also consider the Oral Torah , which they ...
The Jewish apocrypha (Hebrew: הספרים החיצוניים, romanized: HaSefarim haChitzoniyim, lit. 'the outer books') are religious texts written in large part by Jews , especially during the Second Temple period , not accepted as sacred manuscripts when the Hebrew Bible was canonized .
Good News Study Bible with Deuterocanonicals / Apocrypha Today's English Version (ISBN 1-58516-120-9).Published by the American Bible Society, this uses the 1992 second edition of the GNB /TEV (with American spelling). 1747 pages.
The first half, Lost Books of the Bible, is an unimproved reprint of a book published by William Hone in 1820, titled The Apocryphal New Testament, itself a reprint of a translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in 1693 by William Wake, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a smattering of medieval embellishments on the New ...
The New Interpreter's Study Bible is a study Bible first published by Abingdon Press/Cokesbury in 2003 which uses the complete New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) text with Apocrypha. The NISB is the expanded edition of the NRSV text that includes 3 and 4 Maccabees, and Psalm 151, which are considered as authoritative in Eastern Orthodox churches.
The Bible: An American Translation (AAT) is an English version of the Bible consisting of the Old Testament translated by a group of scholars under the editorship of John Merlin Powis Smith, [1] the Apocrypha translated by Edgar J. Goodspeed, and the New Testament translated by Edgar J. Goodspeed.
The Acts of Andrew (Latin: Acta Andreae), is a Christian apocryphal work describing acts and miracles of Andrew the Apostle.It is alluded to in a Coptic 3rd-century work titled the Manichaean Psalm Book, so it must have been composed prior to that century.