pseudepigraphic

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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 Platt, Rutherford Hayes

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 Bentwich, Norman

A cursory glance at the pseudepigraphic literature of the Jews, which is older than the Haggadah literature by several centuries, shows how untenable this view is.

From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 by Szold, Henrietta

All are probably pseudepigraphic except the passages from Ezekiel and Joel.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" 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 Szold, Henrietta