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‖ pseudepigrapha, n.|ps-, sjuːdɪˈpɪgrəfə|
[a. Gr. neut. pl. of ψευδεπίγραϕ-ος ‘with false title’, f. ψευδ-, pseudo- + ἐπιγράϕειν to inscribe (see epigraph). Cf. Apocrypha.]
pl. A collective term for books or writings bearing a false title, or ascribed to another than the true author; spurious writings; spec. applied to certain Jewish writings composed about the beginning of the Christian era, but ascribed to various patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament. Also sing. in anglicized form pseudepigraph |-ˈɛpɪgrɑːf, -græf|.
1692Ray Disc. 37 The Verses now extant under the Name of Sibylline Oracles are all suspected to be false and pseudepigrapha. 1884C. A. Briggs Bibl. Study 155 The book of Jubilees of the first century and other pseudepigraphs of the time. 1886― Messianic Proph. xiii. 412 We have an example of such a pseudepigraph in Ecclesiastes. 1906H. B. Swete Apocalypse Introd. xv. §1. 170 The Jewish pseudepigrapha bear the names of Old Testament patriarchs, kings, or prophets.
Hence pseudeˈpigraphal, pseudepiˈgraphic, -ical [see epigraphic], pseudeˈpigraphous adjs., pertaining to or having the character of pseudepigrapha; falsely or erroneously ascribed to some author; spurious; pseudeˈpigraphy [see epigraphy], false ascription of authorship.
a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 388, I will not set my rest upon a *Pseudepigraphal Testimony. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 6 Amongst these Pseudo-Epigraphal Pamphlets of such early Pretensions, must be plac'd St. James's Proto-Evangelion. 1904H. A. A. Kennedy St. Paul's Concept. last Things ii. 65 The pseudepigraphal literature of Judaism anterior to and contemporary with St. Paul.
1879J. Jacobs in 19th Cent. Sept. 498 Its history is obscured by a mass of *pseudepigraphic writings.
1867Sat. Rev. 30 Mar. 408/2 Into the wild chaos of so-called *pseud-epigraphical writings..they threw their own gospel.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §17. 296 To conclude the Orphick Poems to have been *Pseudepigraphous. 1894G. C. M. Douglas in Lex Mosaica 75 [That] the whole of the prophets and historical books are pseudepigraphous or pseudonymous.
1842Brande Dict. Sc. etc., *Pseudepigraphy, the ascription of false names of authors to works. |