Why do they say that the Catholic Church added the Apocryphal books to the Bible in the 1500’s?

[NathanH83]

Does that mean that nobody had these books in their Bibles before the 1500’s?

 

[kiwimac]

'They' are wrong.

The biblical apocrypha (from the Ancient Greek: ἀπόκρυφος, romanized: apókruphos, lit. 'hidden') denotes the collection of apocryphal ancient books thought to have been written some time between 200 BC and 400 AD.[1][2][3][4][5] Some Christian churches include some or all of the same texts within the body of their version of the Old Testament.[6]

Although the term apocryphal had been in use since the 5th century, it was in Luther's Bible of 1534 that the Apocrypha was first published as a separate intertestamental section.[7 [/quote]

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