What language was the apocrypja written in?

Apocrypha letters were written in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. There are no apocryphal writings in the Bible produced by the Church.

However, I think you are confused and are instead speaking of the Deuterocanonical books contained in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible canonized in the late 4th and early 5th centuries. If so they were written in Koine Greek like the rest of the Septuagint (Old Testament) that was accepted by Council of Rome and the African Synods under the authority given by Christ. God bless!

In Christ

Fr. Joseph

Most all of them were written way too late to be part of the Bible, plus they did not agree with Scripture.

"Deuterocanonical" is a term coined in 1566 by the theologian Sixtus of Siena (who had converted to Catholicism from Judaism) to describe scriptural texts of the Old Testament considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but which are no longer considered inspired by Jews.

The Deuterocanonical books were included in the Septuagint (LXX), which was the Greek translation of the inspired writings of the Jews completed in the 2nd century BC--BEFORE CHRIST.

Pre-Christian Jews, Philo and Josephus considered the LXX on EQUAL STANDING with the Hebrew Masoretic text. Manuscripts of the LXX have been found among the Qumran Scrolls in the Dead Sea, and were STILL accepted by 1st century Jews. As such, The Gospels and other books of the New Testament have many references to the Deuterocanonical books. http://scripturecatholic.com/deuterocanon.html

Starting approximately in the 2nd century AD, several factors led most Jews to abandon use of the LXX. The earliest gentile Christians used the LXX since (at that time), it was the only Greek version of the Old Testament Bible and most (if not all) of these early non-Jewish Christians could not read Hebrew. This was BEFORE the New Testament canon of scripture. This association of the LXX with Christianity (a flourishing new rival religion) rendered it suspect in the eyes of the newer generation of Jews and Jewish scholars. Instead, Jews used Hebrew/Aramaic Targum manuscripts later compiled by the Masoretes; and authoritative Aramaic translations, such as those of Onkelos and Rabbi Yonathan ben Uziel. The LXX fell further out of Jewish sanction after differences were discovered between it and these later compilations of the Hebrew scriptures.

1500 years after Christ, Luther came along, thought he was divinely inspired and that the Holy Spirit had been on vacation for a Millennium and a half and deemed himself authoritative enough to determine that the Jews of HIS time didn't use the LXX--and plus they are just so darn Catholic in their content--and therefore the books should be pushed into an Apocrypha section. To his credit, even Luther didn't have the gall to completely remove them from the Bible. But it didn't take long after Luther protested for someone else to protest ... and with the splits the books were ripped out and Protestants never looked back.

May the peace of Christ be with you.