The Apocrypha is the leftover of the Latin Vulgate and various religions regard it with varying degrees of respect. Some consider it to be holy scripture while many consider it to be profitable, but not inspired writings (Porter 272). The Latin Vulgate included the Old and New Testaments, as well as the five apocryphal books: Judith, Tobit, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus and the Maccabees and came about in the Council of Trent in the 4th century (Ibid). The Latin Vulgate later became the official Bible of the Catholic church and remained so until the 12th century when a revision was called for by religious scholars (Ibid). The books contained in the Apocrypha, then, are the leftover of what we now know to be the Old and New Testaments. Because of their
