Apokrifa

Apokrifa (kutoka neno la Kigiriki ἀπόκρυφος, apókruphos, yaani "iliyofichika") ni jina linalotumika katika Ukristo kuanzia karne ya 5 kutajia vitabu ambavyo madhehebu husika hayavikubali katika Biblia.

Hivyo vitabu vilevile vinaweza kuwa vitakatifu kwa madhehebu kadhaa lakini si kwa mengine.

Lakini kuna vitabu vingine ambavyo vinatazamwa na Wakristo wote kuwa ni apokrifa, kwa mfano "Maisha ya Adamu na Eva".

Maelezo ya undani zaidi yanapatikana katika makala Deuterokanoni kuhusu vitabu maarufu zaidi vinavyokubaliwa na Kanisa Katoliki na wengineo kama Neno la Mungu, lakini si na Waprotestanti wengi.

Marejeo

Vitabu vyenyewe

• Robert Holmes and James Parsons, Vet. Test. Graecum cum var. lectionibus (Oxford, 1798–1827)
• Henry Barclay Swete, Old Testament in Greek, i.-iii. (Cambridge, 1887–1894)
• Otto Fridolinus Fritzsche, Libri Apocryphi V. T. Graece (1871).

Ufafanuzi

• O. F. Fritzsche and Grimm, Kurzgef. exeget. Handbuch zu den Apok. des A.T. (Leipzig, 1851–1860)
• Edwin Cone Bissell, Apocrypha of the Old Testament (Edinburgh, 1880)
• Otto Zöckler, Die Apokryphen des Alten Testaments (Munchen, 1891)
• Henry Wace, The Apocrypha ("Speaker's Commentary") (1888)

Utangulizi

• Emil Schürer, Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes, vol. iii. 135 sqq., and his article on "Apokryphen" in Herzog's Realencykl. i. 622-653
• Porter, Frank C. (1898). "Apocrypha". In James Hastings. A Dictionary of the Bible. I. pp. pages 110–123. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/hastings/dictv1/Page_110.html.

Viungo vya nje

• "Apocrypha" in the Catholic Encyclopaedia at newadvent.org/cathen
• "The Apocrypha, Bridge of the Testaments" by Robert C. Dentan at orthodoxanglican.net Ilihifadhiwa 5 Februari 2009 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• "Lutheran Cyclopedia: Apocrypha" at lcms.org