Apocrypha - Apocrypha

Japanese: アポクリュファ - あぽくりゅふぁ
Apocrypha - Apocrypha

…However, there are some discrepancies between the chapters of the original Hebrew text and those of the modern translations of the Bible.
[Apocrypha and Pseudo-Scriptures of the Bible]

[Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudo-Scriptures]
The original word for "apocrypha" is the Greek word for "hidden things." This word was also used to mean "books that should be hidden from outside a certain group because they contain esoteric teachings," but it eventually came to mean "books that should be excluded and hidden because of their heretical content."

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Apocrypha" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかしヘブライ原典の章節と近代語訳聖書の章節は一部にずれがある。【並木 浩一】
【聖書の外典と偽典】

[旧約外典・偽典]
 〈外典(アポクリファ)〉の原語apokrypha(アポクリュファ)は〈隠されたもの〉を意味するギリシア語である。この言葉は,〈秘義的な教えを記しているゆえに特定の集団の外部に対して隠されるべき書物〉という意味でも用いられたが,やがて〈異端的内容のゆえに排除され隠されるべき書物〉という意味をもつに至った。…

※「アポクリュファ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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