Having just gone to a Bible study group which just read the historical books of the Old Testament as they are written, and now looked at the texts of non-canonical books, I can say that Bible books and non-canonical books are completely different. There are clear and obvious reasons why the non-canonical books were not included in the Bible.
The books of the Apocrypha are mixed, but the main ones and the most acclaimed ones are also clearly different to these non-canonical books. Several books of the Apocrypha are written by Bible authors such as Baruch, Daniel and Ezra, and extend what has been included in the Bible.
The non-canonical pseudepigrapha writings rightly do not form part of the Biblical canon of the Hebrew Bible, Septuagint Old Testament, Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant Bibles.
Pseudepigrapha books should not be labelled ‘non-canonical books of the Bible’ as they have no place in the Bible and never have had.
Pseudepigrapha books also should not be labelled as ‘Apocryphal books of the Bible’ as they certainly are not included in Catholic or Orthodox Bibles.
Pseudepigrapha books are in no way ‘missing books of the Bible’ as they are a completely different genre from Bible books.
There are, however, two books of the Apocrypha that could be placed under pseudepigrapha and removed from Catholic Bibles. These are the books of Judith and Wisdom of Solomon which was not written by King Solomon.
Judith seems to belong to the Cult of the Greek hero. It commemorates events that occurred in 161 BC with a woman as the protagonist.
Wisdom of Solomon contains parts which raise wisdom to too high a level which Solomon’s writings did not do.
I have outlined in a previous article why these two books are problematic. The article is entitled ‘Bible Books and Apocrypha in Chronological Order’.
Despite classifying pseudepigrapha works as Jewish Essene mystic, Christian Gnostic, Cult of Mary, and Mystery Play forerunners I think that some information can be gleaned from these ancient writings, although the dialogue, miracle story and morality derived from it need to be taken as ficticious. Thus, you derive a nugget of truth while ignoring the embroidering of the story.
Merry and True 