Meanings
nounpseudepigraph (plural pseudepigraphs or pseudepigrapha)
plural pseudepigraphs · plural pseudepigrapha
- A text that is attributed with a false author.
This ascription is generally believed to be fictitious, but this does not make the book a pseudepigraph, in the sense the term has in the history of the so-called intertestamental literature.
1979, “Jewish Apocalyptic Literature”, in Wolfgang Haase, editor, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99
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