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 Rutherford Hayes Platt
The writings which finally did appear were almost inevitably anonymous or pseudepigraphic, because apostolic authority stood so high that no other could secure circulation.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
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
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
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
