What Are the Apocrypha?

Apocrypha means hidden things.The word Apocrypha was then associated with the meaning untrue.These writings consist of 13 books 1 and 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, an addition of Esther, additions to Daniel, Wisdom of Solomon.Ecclesiasteicus (also known as the wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach) Baruch, the letter of Jeremiah, the prayer of Manasses and 1 and 2 Maccabees.Whether something is written hundreds of years later or hundreds of years before, the test has to be applied whether it agrees with