Apocrypha

As the LDS curriculum shifts from the Old Testament to the New Testament, there's a gap of five centuries between the post-Exile situation depicted in Ezra and Nehemiah and the New Testament writings of the first century. The Bible doesn't do much to fill that gap — at least the LDS Bible and others that omit the Apocrypha. I'm going to summarize the entry "Apocrypha" in the Oxford Dictionary of the Bible, then add a few comments about the LDS view of the Apocrypha and other non-canonical writings, including D&C 91.