How many books are there in the Apocrypha?

Answer 1

How many books depends on what religion you choose to follow or put faith in. It also depends on which reference to Apocypha you are inquiring about. To some, it encompasses all books that were removed from the modern day Bible. To others, it gives name to the selection of the "hidden books" that was chose to be added by Roman Catholics. Apocrypha is also known to many as the Old Testament. You will find several more books in the Catholic Old Testament than in the Protestant Bible, the Protestant counting 39 and the Catholic counting 46 or 47 books

Here is a list of the Different Books of Divergent Traditions:

Those accepted by the Church of Rome, the Greek and Slavonic Orthodox:

Tobit

Judith

Wisdom of Solomon

Ecclesiasticus (or the Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach)

Baruch

Letter of Jeremiah (in Catholic tradition, Baruch 6)

1 Maccabees

2 Maccabees

Additions to Daniel (Prayer of Azariah & the Song of the Three Young Men, the History of Susanna, and the History of the Destruction of Bel & the Dragon)

Additions to the Book of Esther

Those accepted by the all Orthodox Churches:

1 Esdras (Ezra)*

Prayer of Manasseh*†

3 Maccabees

An additional Psalm (151)

The Slavonic Orthodox Church adds:

2 Esdras, 4-6 Ezra, or the Ezra Apocalypse (only found in Latin)*

The Greek Orthodox add in an appendix:

4 Maccabees (sometimes called On the Supremacy of Reason)

In the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, also where the other apocryphal/deuterocanonical books are found) there is another book not currently accepted among any church today:

The Psalms of Solomon

Aside from this list, there are many books known by Protestants as 'pseudepigrapha' (Catholics and Orthodox call the books listed before 'Deuterocanonical' and the following books 'apocryphal') Here are just a few:

Life of Adam and Eve

The Odes of Solomon

Joseph and Asenath

The Book of Enoch

The Book of Jubilees

5 Maccabees

The Martyrdom of Isaiah

Psalms 152-155

And literally thousands of others (not to mention all of the New Testament Apocrypha)

*These books are found in the Latin Vulgate but are not canonical in the Roman Catholic Church, but are also collected with the other Catholic deuterocanonicals in what is called "The Protestant Apocrypha"

† The Prayer of Manasseh was found in the Septuagint Book of Odes, a collection of Biblical psalms, hymns, and prayers which came after the Psalms