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Stories transmitted by contemporary media can also be understood in terms of canon and apocrypha.
The essays that commanded my sustained attention ranged from one end of the century to the other, from the canon to the apocrypha and back.
Once Kipling got his Nobel, he was kicked upstairs to the more respectable niche of assistant editor, as per the Pioneer apocrypha.
Religion is founded upon the oral tradition, the passing down of myths and fact and apocrypha until they cohere into something with a central doctrine.
In its broadest sense apocrypha has come to mean any writings of dubious authority.
The work is a compilation of several authors and is the only work among the apocrypha that was consciously modeled after the prophetic writings of the Old Testament.
Based on Bacon's apocrypha, he is also portrayed as a visionary who predicted the invention of the submarine, aircraft, and automobile.
Among these apocrypha is the Gospel of Judas, a gnostic text of the 2nd century ad that portrays Judas as an important collaborator of Jesus and not his betrayer.
Other books, called apocrypha, can present a historic interest.
His edition of Chaucer's Works in 1561 brought the apocrypha to more than 50 titles.
Other books were held in high esteem but were gradually relegated to the status of New Testament apocrypha.
As a result, various church authorities labeled different books as apocrypha, treating them with varying levels of regard.
Artists and theologians have drawn upon the New Testament apocrypha for such matters as the names of Dismas and Gestas and details about the Three Wise Men.
Many recent commentators simply acknowledge the New Testament's use of the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha and explain the text without addressing it as a theological problem.
A notable strength of the opening chapter is the author's summary of ecclesiastical uses of the Apocrypha.
It is difficult to find a Father who does not quote the Apocrypha and treat it as Scripture.
They had all completed their sections by 1608, the Apocrypha committee finishing first.
Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin.
Lessons from the Apocrypha are regularly appointed to be read in the daily, Sunday, and special services of Morning and Evening Prayer.
Two of the hymns used in the American Prayer Book office of Morning Prayer, the Benedictus es and Benedicite, are taken from the Apocrypha.
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The neglect of the apocrypha has not been by any means entirely accidental.
But these exact words, unfortunately, were only to be found in the apocrypha.
These are only to be found in the apocrypha, and in all of them the Elephant is described as an engine of war.
But concerning this we will enquire further in connection with the apocrypha.
Verily, I say unto you, that it is not needful that the apocrypha should be translated.
Bois was a member of the company to which the apocrypha was assigned.
The name never occurs in the apocrypha or the New Testament.
The Prophets, the Hagiographa, and the Apocrypha were translated at various times during the succeeding three hundred years.
In 1879 the Bishop went up the river to Wuchang, and began the translation of the Apocrypha.
He distinguishes between what Pullman has borrowed from the Apocrypha and details Pullman has invented for his narrative purposes.
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