Word: apocrypha
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...translators wish that the dozen N.A.B. publishers were not marketing it as a "Catholic" Bible, but the work has its sectarian aspects. The most obvious one is inclusion of the Old Testament Apocrypha. Though Anglicans occasionally use these books in services, no Protestant group regards them as Scripture, which makes them a major barrier to any common Bible. One N.A.B. footnote specifies that Peter himself is the "rock" on which the church is founded; Protestants consider the verse a play on words in which Jesus renamed the apostle Petros because of the petra (rock) of his confession of faith...
...Singer's view, absurdity, chaos, the irrational, all the fashionable preoccupations of contemporary life, are at best apocrypha, not canon. In a world of prose experiment and cool media, Singer, virtually alone, works in the metaphysical tradition. Behind him are the contiguous works of Kafka, Chekhov -and Gogol, with whom the reader of A Friend of Kafka must agree: "Say what you like, but such things do happen -not often, but they do happen." These 21 miraculous creations are, in the highest artistic tradition, true stories. · Stefan Kanfer
...other principal Protestant churches and Bible societies had joined with the Scots and the Oxford and Cambridge presses to form a joint committee to undertake the translation. The work was entrusted to three panels of biblical scholars-one for the Old Testament, one for the New, one for the Apocrypha-and an eleven-member literary panel...
Like the N.E.B. New Testament, which was first published in 1961 and has since sold 7,000,000 copies (2,750,000 in the U.S.), the books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha went through laborious stages of development. First, a single translator produced each book; then he submitted it to his panel for line-by-line, verse-by-verse scrutiny. Next came the literary panel, whose task was to approve or improve the wording. Then the draft went back to the translating panel to ensure that correct meanings had not been obscured in the process. "Passages of particular difficulty...
...this production of Jesus, though certain of its devices, described here outside their stage context, will inevitably suggest the reverse. The hundreds of vivid and contemporary visual references with which Mr. Mayer has leavened this text--derived exclusively (excepting the interpolated songs) from the King James Version, Gospels and Apocrypha--are not, I think, to be take as acid annotations on either the myth they illustrate or the times which produced their referant images. Rather they serve to make unexpectedly immediate a story which it may seem has been literally told to death. Not so long ago, the armband...