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Book of Noah?</a><br><br> <a href="book-of-Jasher.html">What is the book of Jasher and should it be in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="book-of-Jubilees.html">What is the Book of Jubilees and should it be in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="book-of-Giants.html">What is the Book of Giants?</a><br><br> <a href="third-fourth-Maccabees.html">What are the books of 3 and 4 Maccabees?</a><br><br> <a href="apocryphal-gospels.html">What are the apocryphal gospels?</a><br><br> <a href="agrapha.html">What are the agrapha?</a><br><br> <h2>The Jewish Apocrypha</h2> <a href="Genesis-Apocryphon.html">What is the Genesis Apocryphon?</a><br><br> <a href="Testament-of-Job.html">What is the Testament of Job?</a><br><br> <a href="first-second-Esdras.html">What are the books of 1 Esdras and 2 Esdras?</a><br><br> <a href="book-of-Tobit.html">What is the book of Tobit?</a><br><br> <a href="book-of-Judith.html">What is the book of Judith?</a><br><br> <a href="Wisdom-of-Solomon.html">What is the Wisdom of Solomon?</a><br><br> <a href="book-of-Ecclesiasticus.html">What is the book of Ecclesiasticus?</a><br><br> <a href="book-of-Sirach.html">What is the book of Sirach?</a><br><br> <a href="book-of-Baruch.html">What is the book of Baruch?</a><br><br> <a href="letter-of-Jeremiah.html">What is the letter of Jeremiah?</a><br><br> <a href="Prayer-of-Azariah.html">What is the Prayer of Azariah?</a><br><br> <a href="book-of-Susanna.html">What is the book of Susanna?</a><br><br> <a href="Bel-and-the-Dragon.html">What is Bel and the Dragon?</a><br><br> <a href="Prayer-of-Manasseh.html">What is the Prayer of Manasseh?</a><br><br> <a href="first-second-Maccabees.html">What are the books of 1 and 2 Maccabees?</a><br><br> <h2>The Gnostic Gospels</h2> <a href="Gnostic-gospels.html">What are the Gnostic gospels?</a><br><br> <a href="Gospel-of-Truth.html">What is the Gospel of Truth?</a><br><br> <a href="gospel-of-Judas.html">What is the gospel of Judas?</a><br><br> <a href="gospel-of-Thomas.html">What is the gospel of Thomas?</a><br><br> <a href="gospel-of-Philip.html">What is the gospel of Philip?</a><br><br> <a href="gospel-of-Mary-Magdalene.html">What is the gospel of Mary (Magdalene)?</a><br><br> <a href="Secret-Gospel-of-Mark.html">What is the Secret Gospel of Mark?</a><br><br> <a href="Gospel-of-the-Hebrews.html">What is the Gospel of the Hebrews?</a><br><br> <a href="Acts-of-Thomas.html">What is the Acts of Thomas?</a><br><br> <a href="Apocryphon-of-John.html">What is the Apocryphon of John?</a><br><br> <a href="Apocalypse-of-Adam.html">What is the Apocalypse of Adam?</a><br><br> <a href="gospel-of-Jesus-wife.html">What is the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife?</a><br><br> <h2>The Pseudepigrapha</h2> <a href="pseudepigrapha.html">What is the pseudepigrapha?</a><br><br> <a href="gospel-of-Peter.html">What is the Gospel of Peter?</a><br><br> <a href="Epistle-of-Barnabas.html">What is the Epistle of Barnabas?</a><br><br> <a href="gospel-Nicodemus-acts-Pilate.html">What is the Gospel of Nicodemus / Acts of Pilate?</a><br><br> <a href="gospel-of-Barnabas.html">What is the gospel of Barnabas?</a><br><br> <a href="Testament-of-Solomon.html">What is the Testament of Solomon?</a><br><br> <a href="Assumption-of-Moses.html">What is the Assumption of Moses?</a><br><br> <a href="Ascension-of-Isaiah.html">What is the Ascension of Isaiah?</a><br><br> <a href="book-of-Adam-and-Eve.html">What is the Book of Adam and Eve?</a><br><br> <a href="Odes-of-Solomon.html">What are the Odes of Solomon?</a><br><br> <a href="Psalms-of-Solomon.html">What are the Psalms of Solomon?</a><br><br> <a href="Apocalypse-of-Baruch.html">What is the <em>Apocalypse of Baruch</em>?</a><br><br> <a href="Letter-of-King-Abgar-to-Jesus.html">What is the Letter of King Abgar to Jesus?</a><br><br> <a href="1-and-2-Clement.html">What are the books of 1 and 2 Clement?</a><br><br> <a href="Book-of-Odes.html">What is the Book of Odes?</a><br><br> <a href="book-of-the-Rooster.html">What is the Book of the Rooster?</a><br><br> <h2>The Apocryphal Acts</h2> <a href="Acts-of-Peter.html">What is the Acts of Peter?</a><br><br> <a href="Acts-of-John.html">What is the Acts of John?</a><br><br> <a href="Apocryphal-Acts-of-the-Apostles.html">What are the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles?</a><br><br> <a href="Acts-of-Paul-and-Thecla.html">What is <em>The Acts of Paul and Thecla</em>?</a><br><br> <h2>The Infancy Gospels</h2> <a href="Protoevangelium-of-James.html">What is the Protoevangelium of James?</a><br><br> <a href="infancy-gospels.html">What are the Infancy Gospels?</a><br><br> <a href="Infancy-Gospel-of-Thomas.html">What is the Infancy Gospel of Thomas?</a><br><br> <h2>The Apocalyptic Books</h2> <a href="Shepherd-of-Hermas.html">What is the Shepherd of Hermas and should it be in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="apocalypse-of-Peter.html">What is the Apocalypse of Peter?</a><br><br> <a href="apocalypse-of-Paul.html">What is the Apocalypse of Paul?</a><br><br> <a href="Testament-of-Abraham.html">What is the Testament of Abraham?</a><br><br> <a href="Testaments-of-the-Twelve-Patriarchs.html">What are the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs?</a><br><br> <a href="Apocalypse-of-Moses.html">What is the Apocalypse of Moses?</a><br><br> <hr><br> <center><strong class="return"> Return to:<br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_Bible.html">Content Directory — Bible</a><br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_Bible_essentials.html">Bible Essentials</a><br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_Bible_translations.html">Translations and Criticisms</a><br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_Bible_studying.html">Studying the Bible</a><br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_Bible_testaments.html">Books and Testaments</a><br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_Bible_understanding.html">Understanding the Bible</a><br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" 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