Apocrypha

Apocrypha is not the name of an individual author but a collective term for a body of ancient Jewish and Christian writings of uncertain or disputed authorship, composed roughly between 200 BC and 100 AD. These texts, including books like Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, and Maccabees, were part of the Septuagint but excluded from the Protestant canon. Most are pseudepigraphical or anonymous, with rare exceptions like Sirach, attributed to Jesus ben Sirach around 175 BC.