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pseudepigraphical

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as pseudepigraphic.

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  • adjective Of or relating to pseudepigraphy.

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Examples

  • But I find it hard to make a judgment one way or the other, because the Pastoral Epistles are widely accepted as being pseudepigraphical, and yet I find it hard to imagine someone who idolizes Paul enough to write in his name penning 1 Timothy 1:15.

    Review of Doubting Jesus' Resurrection James F. McGrath 2010

  • The failure to claim to be "James, the Lord's brother" seems odd if it is pseudepigraphical - but of course, perhaps the author is in fact James the Lord's brother, and even if he isn't particularly humble, perhaps he simply assumed everyone knew who he was.

    Review of Doubting Jesus' Resurrection James F. McGrath 2010

  • The book of Jude is considered pseudepigraphical by some, though not by all, but the book of John is typically attributed not to the disciple whom Jesus loved, but rather a disciple of that disciple, or a disciple of that disciple, or a community that the disciple Jesus loved founded, so Ingermanson's argument that the author of John had to outlive the Judah buried in the tomb is incorrect.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • The book of Jude is considered pseudepigraphical by some, though not by all, but the book of John is typically attributed not to the disciple whom Jesus loved, but rather a disciple of that disciple, or a disciple of that disciple, or a community that the disciple Jesus loved founded, so Ingermanson's argument that the author of John had to outlive the Judah buried in the tomb is incorrect.

    March Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour, Day 3 2007

  • Later developments of this idea can be found in several pseudepigraphical works (noncanonical Jewish documents that were influential in popular religious circles, especially Christian ones): the Books of Adam and Eve (chaps. 3, 5 16, 18), the Apocalypse of Moses (24: 1 – 2), 2 Enoch (30: 16 – 18; 31: 6), and Targum Pseudo-Jonathan.

    Eve: Apocrypha. 2009

  • Asmodeus appears in the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit and, again, in the Testament of Solomon, which is a pseudepigraphical work of the Old Testament.

    Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

  • Something similar to the Sextian version of the practice is found in lines 40-44 of the Golden Verses, a pseudepigraphical treatise consisting of 71 Greek hexameter verses, which were ascribed to Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans.

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • The lack of historical allusion makes it difficult to precisely date the writing, however, using other pseudepigraphical works as a reference, it was probably written a few hundred years before the birth of Christ.

    Bible. O. T. Apocryphal books. English Rutherford Hayes Platt 1934

  • Biblical books (apocryphal and pseudepigraphical) and Jewish commentary.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • These references include historians, extra Biblical books (apocryphal and pseudepigraphical) and Jewish commentary.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

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