Catholicism teaches that Scripture involves more than the canon accepted by the Jews, Jesus and the Church of the first four centuries, i.e., the 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament. Of the same form as a book of scripture but excluded from the canon as doubtful or spurious. Among Jewish writings the word is best applied not to the Apocrypha proper but to the wider class of Pseudepigrapha, and thus to the ‘Apocryphal Old Testament’. The ‘Apocryphal New Testament’ includes gospels, acts of apostles, epistles, and apocalypses. Here's a quick review of books you might think about purchasing: The Encyclopedia of Lost and Rejected Scriptures: The Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha, The Septuagint, The Aprocryphal New Testiment, The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, The Coptic Ethiopian Bible (if you can find it), The Greek Orthodox and Catholic Bibles (for cross.
If you were searching for a free printer friendly (pdf format) Apocrypha that you could download you are at the right place. Works on any device (computers, tablets, and cellphone).
***FYI page will updated soon with more content.
Update – 12/17/2016
Apocryphal Facts Ixrejected Scriptures Study
Thank you Sister V,
Most sisters are not aware that they could be very helpful to the truth of the Heavenly Father. In the scriptures there is constant proof of this, although it is not taught often. Philippians 4:3“And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.” For instance yesterday (on the Sabbath) we received an email from a sister that informed us of a misprint in the Apocrypha PDF (printer friendly) download. Besides correcting what she pointed out to us we also took the time to make some improvements to the PDF.
Such as adding shortcuts links in the Table of Contents page to jump to the book desired. The previous version had bookmarks to each book but for the technically challenged it was hard to find. Now you do not have to worry about looking for the bookmark since the Table of Contents actually provides the same ability. Yet if you were proficient with the bookmarks; Ecclesiasticus now has additional bookmarks to skip 10 chapters at a time. Finally everyone should know that the Apocrypha Download works on any device; on your computer, tablet, and phone. But if you are like me you printed it out and wrote precepts (link ups to other scriptures) on the sides. In the near future we want to introduce a separate version that contains the precepts that we added during our studies.
Corrections: Ecclesiasticus 36:25-26 (missing verse), Tobit 8:7 (replaced lush with lust), and 2 Maccabees 7:27 (replaced such with suck).
Update – 6/19/2015
Apocryphal Facts Ixrejected Scriptures Verses
Shalam brothers and sisters we have uploaded a new version of the Apocrypha with corrections that were made to the book of Baruch, Bel and the Dragon, and Prayer of Manasses. For better navigation we added bookmarks; in Adobe reader on the top right hand corner click the icon that will show the side bar then click on the Navigation icon. Sometime soon this page will contain the breakdown of proving the authenticity of the Apocrypha according to the scriptures. Please look out also for those podcast lessons. Shalam!