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New Testament Apocrypha
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Apocrypha
Apocrypha [Gr.,=hidden things], term signifying a collection of early Jewish writings excluded from the canon of the Hebrew scriptures. It is not clear why the term was chosen. The Apocrypha include the following books and parts of books: First and Second Esdras ; Tobit ; Judith ; the Additions... Read more |
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Nicodemus
Nicodemus , in the Gospel of St. John, member of the Sanhedrin sympathetic to Jesus. He helped Joseph of Arimathea to bury him. Among the New Testament Apocrypha is a Gospel of Nicodemus.... Read more |
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Susanna
Susanna 1 Heroine of a story told in the Book of Daniel, in a chapter (13) placed in the Apocrypha in the Authorized Version (see Daniel ). Two elders attempt to seduce Susanna and are repulsed; they accuse her of illicit relations with a young man, but she is saved from punishment by young... Read more |
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Gospel of Nicodemus
Gospel of Nicodemus book composed of the Acts of Pilate and Christ's Descent into Hell, part of the loosely defined New Testament Apocrypha. The Acts of Pilate is an amplified account of the trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus; it focuses on Pilate in its first section. Justin Martyr (fl.... Read more |
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Judith
Judith [Heb.,=Jewess], early Jewish book included in the Septuagint, but not included in the Hebrew Bible, and placed in the Apocrypha of Protestant Bibles. It recounts an attack on the Jews by an army led by Holofernes, Nebuchadnezzar's general. Bethulia, a besieged Jewish city, is about to... Read more |
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Baruch (Judaism)
Baruch early Jewish book included in the Septuagint, but not included in the Hebrew Bible and placed in the Apocrypha in the Authorized Version. It is named for a Jewish prince Baruch (fl. 600 BC), friend and editor of Jeremiah the prophet (see Jeremiah , book of the Bible). Baruch comprises: a... Read more |
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Sirach
Sirach sī´rek or Ecclesiasticus [Lat. from Gr.,=ecclesiastical], book included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic canon of the Old Testament but not included in the Hebrew Bible and placed in the Apocrypha of the Authorized Version and Protestant Bibles since. It is... Read more |
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Septuagint
Septuagint [Lat.,=70], oldest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made by Hellenistic Jews, possibly from Alexandria, c.250 BC Legend, according to the fictional letter of Aristeas, records that it was done in 72 days by 72 translators for Ptolemy Philadelphus, which accounts for the name.... Read more |
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Bel
Bel an alternative form of the name of the god Baal, occurring most frequently in Bel and the Dragon, two stories included as a single item in the Apocrypha. The first relates how the prophet Daniel convinced the Babylonian king that the offerings of food and drink which were daily set before the... Read more |
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Invitation to the Apocrypha
Invitation to the Apocrypha by Daniel J. Harrington, S.J...intertestamental Jewish writings termed "apocrypha" by Protestants, and regarded as...books. Although the Old Testament Apocrypha is an artificial assemblage of diverse... |
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Introducing the Apocrypha: Message, Context, and Significance
...concerning the significance of the apocrypha for NT studies. In addition, the title Introducing the Apocrypha strikes me as misleading. For...pastors. Daniel J. Harrington's Invitation to the Apocrypha (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999... |
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Bookshelf.(Review)
...authority and the church's identity will find here a scholarly but readable treatment of the issues at hand. Invitation to the Apocrypha, by Jesuit Fr. Daniel J. Harrington (William. B. Eerdmans, 222 pages, $16 paperback), is a guide... |
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BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)
...Faley, R. Apocalypse Then and Now. N.Y.: Paulist, 1999. Pp. 192. $18.95. Harrington, D. Invitation to the Apocrypha. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. Pp. 222. $16. Jervis, L. Galatians. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson... |
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Who's Who.(current events and personalities)(Brief Article)(Column)
...out that we were handed a piece of apocrypha with last month's item about Norman Mineta's being left off an invitation to a Carter White House honoring...inadvertently left off the White House invitation list until the last minute. Speaking... |
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ECCE HOMO.
...included in the canon; the Old Testament Apocrypha, a body of early Jewish and Christian...scholars from 15 countries who gather, by invitation only, to share research on Second Temple...Testament Pseudepigrapha and Old Testament Apocrypha. She compiled a line-by-line ... |
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KRANTZ TO BE HONORED AT MIDWEST SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES...
...Krantz is also the author of Mathematical Apocrypha and Mathematical Apocrypha Redux, collections of anecdotes about famous...a signal honor among mathematicians because invitations are sparingly given. FornA[bar]ss is also... |
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The Mythic Jew
...whose conditions would have made impossible Bassanio's invitation to dinner and superfluous Shylock's "but I will not eat...part of Portia's "the quality of mercy" speech is the Apocrypha's Ecclesisasticus, written by the Jewish sage Ben Sira... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Classical: The Compact Collection Rob Cowan on the Week's new releases
...Turnage eulogises both. Jokes aside, this is no opiate and the invitation to share stands even beyond a second or third listen. Other...only from a historical standpoint (including settings of the Apocrypha) but from an axis that also takes account of present- day... |
 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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J.T.'s World.(Media&Society)
...But some cocked their heads. Ms. Ryder's tale of her invitation to a 13-year-old who by his own account would have been...Things has cultivated a mystique of half-truths and clever apocrypha about his own life that seems to chafe at investigation... |
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