apocrypha: 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
sacred text: writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity
anaphor: a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent