Old Testament Apocrypha

Japanese: 旧約偽典 - きゅうやくぎてん
Old Testament Apocrypha

…The term was also used to mean books that should be hidden from outside a certain group because they contain esoteric teachings, but eventually came to mean books that should be excluded and hidden because of their heretical content. In the ancient church, apokrypha often referred to the Old Testament and New Testament Apocrypha in the latter sense, and the Old Testament Apocrypha were called libri ecclesiastici (church books). Since Luther included the Old Testament Apocrypha in his German translation of the Bible under the title Apokrypha, or books that should not be treated like the Bible, but are useful to read, this has become standard Protestant usage. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Old Testament Pseudoscriptures" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…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。古代教会においてはapokryphaは後者の意味で〈旧約偽典〉および〈新約外典〉を指すことが多く,〈旧約外典〉は〈教会の書物libri ecclesiastici〉などと呼ばれた。ルターが旧約外典を,〈Apokrypha,すなわち聖書と同様に扱うべきではないが,読んで有益な書物〉という標題とともにそのドイツ語訳聖書に収録して以来,これがプロテスタントの標準的な語法となった。…

※「旧約偽典」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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