In a message dated 10-3-1999 2:28:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> The term apocrypha has to be used with caution. It has two different
> meanings, the books found in the Roman Catholic canon (with others sharing
> it) but not in the Protestant canon (like Wisdom) & those books accepted
> by neither tradition but circulated as if biblical. At least one, the
> supposed epistle of Paul to the Laodicaeans, can show up in Bibles. I
> saw one copy in a Bible in Biblioteca Ambrosiana. A useful tool, if
> somewhat dated, for identifying such texts is Stegmuller, repertorium
> Biblicum.
>
> Tom Izbicki
>
What about the distinction between the apocryphal and pseudepigraphal books,
which I thought is fairly common?
pat sloane
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