<P> Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin . Biblical apocrypha is a set of texts included in the Latin Vulgate and Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible . While Catholic tradition considers the texts to be deuterocanonical, Protestants consider them apocryphal . Thus, Protestant bibles do not include the books within the Old Testament but have often included them in a separate section . Other non-canonical apocryphal texts are generally called pseudepigrapha, a term that means "false writings". </P> <P> The word's origin is the Medieval Latin adjective apocryphus, "secret, or non-canonical", from the Greek adjective ἀπόκρυφος (apokryphos), "obscure", from the verb ἀποκρύπτειν (apokryptein), "to hide away". </P>

What are the extra books of the bible called