Apocrypha

Little did these people know that apocrypha is apocryphal for a good reason, and not because it's dangerous (though I'm sure the Catholic Church saw it as such). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus, in the first Christian centuries, the so-called apocrypha (q.v.) above all other books appeared to the faithful as libri non recipiendi, books which were on no account to be used. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

These writings are called apocrypha because their divine origin is in doubt. ❋ Unknown (1904)

Notwithstanding that we have taken so much pains to show that the books called apocrypha, are not canonical, we wish to avoid the opposite extreme of regarding them as useless, or injurious. ❋ 1772-1851 (1851)

We can form anonymous collectives that work after the manner of what Kent refers to as apocrypha (feneon, Edgar Allen Poe, etc.). ❋ Unknown (2009)

just so you know, people of the world, the "apocrypha" is not a catholic thing. it's not in the catholic bible. it's not catholic. in fact, the apocrypha is the very definition of "not catholic". nothing could be less catholic than the apocrypha. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hell, I'd argue that I'm looking at a meta-narrative which is of a * still larger* scope anyway, including non-canonical monotheist texts such as apocrypha or the writings of Christian apologists, and even external material like Sumerian myth; these provide historical, philosophical, sociological and mythological context (s) which can (and should) have a major impact on our reading of the text. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

These dreams form a kind of apocrypha to my main myth. ❋ Moorcock, Michael, 1939- (2003)

He was the first to omit the deuterocanonical books in the body of the Old Testament, adding them at the end as "apocrypha". ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Later that evening at a rally in Houston with former presidential candidate John Edwards, the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party tried to turn the Perry apocrypha into a political advantage. ❋ James Moore (2011)

The uncredited episodes, with titles like "The Legend of the Official Visit" and "The Legend of the Chicken Driver," skew to satirical undoings of party orthodoxy and folkwise apocrypha illustrating the foibles of human nature. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

Indeed, a soggy version of multiculturalism has mandated that "the holidays" also take in a dubious episode from the Jewish apocrypha as well as Kwanzaa, an Afrocentric fabrication that comes to us courtesy of Ron Karenga, who we must also thank as the inventor of "ebonics." ❋ Christopher Hitchens (2011)

The ten fragments of the scroll were text from various books of the Bible, apocrypha, and non-Biblical texts, from 2000-2500 years ago. ❋ Melted_snowball (2009)

You've been ignoring any of Jesus 'ideas you don't like and talking about apocrypha as if it was Gospel that you alone discovered and understood. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps open the Talmud, Tractate Sabbath where your laws are located -- though even the rabbis denied you your own independent space in the Talmud read your books of apocrypha and Josephus's account. ❋ Joe Winkler (2011)

The Bible, including the Hebrew and Christian Canons, the apocrypha, the discoveries in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- all of it is rife with contradictions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The biographer proves an adept guide through this apocrypha — in particular, the multiple unfinished "mysterious stranger" manuscripts, so named for their impish, devil-like protagonist, whose exploits take him to a medieval Austrian village in one storyline, to a 19th-century American schoolhouse in another and to India in yet another. ❋ Unknown (2010)