单词 | pseudepigrapha |
释义 | pseudepigraphan. Books or writings that are falsely titled or attributed; spurious or pseudonymous writings; esp. Jewish writings ascribed to various biblical patriarchs and prophets but actually composed c200 b.c.– a.d. 200. Cf. pseudepigraph n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Hebrew scripture > [noun] > Pseudepigrapha pseudepigrapha1621 society > leisure > the arts > literature > [noun] > specific types of literature > false or spurious pseudepigrapha1621 pseudo-literature1890 spuria1918 1621 R. Crakanthorpe Def. Constantine i. x. 203 He cals those Epistles Pseudepigrapha, Bookes falsely ascribed vnto Saint Hierome. 1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. iv. 37 The Verses now extant under the Name of Sibylline Oracles are all suspected to be false and pseudepigrapha. 1793 S. Pegge Life Robert Grosseteste 68 The Art of Criticism, whose chief office and employment it was to distinguish the genuine works of the antients from the spurious, the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha,..was little understood at this time. 1894 C. A. Briggs Messiah of Gospels 2 The prophetic tendency, after the fixing of the canon of the former and latter prophets, was active in pseudepigrapha and in historical didactic stories. 1906 H. B. Swete Apocalypse Introd. xv. §1. 170 The Jewish pseudepigrapha bear the names of Old Testament patriarchs, kings, or prophets. 1971 R. T. France Jesus & Old Testament v. 194 Neither the Pseudepigrapha nor the Qumran literature show any use of this passage. 2000 J. A. Sanders in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 152/2 The discovery for the first time at Qumran of some books of the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha in the original languages confirms that these writings..had a wide circulation during this period. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1621 |
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