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Definition of Pseudepigrapha
1. Noun. 52 texts written between 200 BC and AD 200 but ascribed to various prophets and kings in the Hebrew scriptures; many are apocalyptic in nature.
Definition of Pseudepigrapha
1. Noun. Writings falsely ascribed to biblical times, especially to 3rd century Judaic scripture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pseudepigrapha
1. pseudepigraphon [n] - See also: pseudepigraphon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pseudepigrapha
Literary usage of Pseudepigrapha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Charles Augustus Briggs (1920)
"Of the pseudepigrapha the evidence that our author used the Testament of Levi,
i Enoch, and the Assumption of Moses, is sufficiently strong; see below, § 7. ..."
2. The Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge and Gazetteer by Talbot Wilson Chambers, Frank Hugh Foster, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1889)
"Compare also the article '• pseudepigrapha in the Fathers " by Scuda- more and
Stokes in Smith and Wace, Dictionary. 3. New Testament pseudepigrapha. riel*8 ..."
3. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"during this period that apocalyptic literature began to flourish, many specimens
of which are found among the Apoc and the pseudepigrapha. ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"I. Preliminary Discussion: By pseudepigrapha is commonly understood in the ...
V. Philosophical pseudepigrapha. known, are not found in the manuscripts of ..."
5. The Theological Monthly (1891)
"DEANE'S pseudepigrapha. THE author of this valuable and interesting work, the Rev.
William J. Deane, rector of Ashen, in the county of Suffolk, ..."
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