New Testament apocrypha New Testament apocrypha The New Testament apocrypha (singular apocryphon) are a number of writings by early Christians that give accounts of Jesus and his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles and of their lives. Some of these writings have been cited as scripture by early Christians, but since the fifth century a widespread consensus has emerged limiting the New Testament to the 27 books of the modern canon. Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches generally do not view these New Testament apocrypha as part of the Bible. The word "apocrypha" means "things put away"
Names and titles of God in the New Testament at . It is represented in Greek as "Ἁλληλουιά" wherein "ιά" (Hebrew יה) is an abbreviated form of the tetragrammaton. Most English Bibles, including those which contain "Yahweh" (such as the Jerusalem Bible) or a related form in the Old Testament, do not use the same form in the New Testament because it does not appear in the available Greek New Testament manuscripts. However, of over English translations of the Bible have been written, 23 use the forms "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" in the New Testament. Sacred Name Bibles are editions of the Bible that "consistently use Hebraic forms of God's