Biblical apocryphaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The word "apocrypha" (from the Greek word ἀπόκρυφος, apokryfos, meaning "hidden") is today often used to refer to the collection of ancient books printed in some editions of the Bible in a separate section between the Old and New Testaments. This usage originated in Luther's Bible of 1534, which was the first to print the Apocrypha as a separate inter-Testamental section. Luther was making a polemical point about the canonicity of these books. As an authority for this division, he cited St. Jerome, who in the early 5th century distinguished the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments, stating that books not found in the Hebrew were not received as canonical. Although his statement was controversial in his day, Jerome was later titled a Doctor of the Church and his authority was also cited in the Anglican statement in 1571 of the Thirty-Nine Articles.