pseudepigrapha
noun
certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
Pseudepigraphic
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a word derived from
Pseudepigrapha.
pseudepigraphic
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a word derived from
pseudepigrapha.
pseudepigraphanouncertain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
Example Sentences
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But though Christianity was in spirit the descendant of ancient Jewish prophecy, it was no less truly the child of that Judaism which had expressed its highest aspirations and ideals in pseudepigraphic and apocalyptic literature.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Although considered to be pseudepigraphic by some, it carries significant meaning and insight into events of that time.
From First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt
It bears all the traces of the pseudepigraphic tendency of a period that produced the first works of the Cabala, the Seder Olam Zutta of Rabbi Joshua, and the neo-Hebraic apocalypses.
From Josephus by Norman Bentwich
Of these pseudepigraphic Hermetic writings some have come down to us in the original Greek; others survive in Latin or Arabic translations; but the majority appear to have perished.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
At a very early time the Synagogue disavowed the pseudepigraphic literature, which was the favorite reading matter of the sectaries and the Christians.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 by Henrietta Szold
