Jewish or Jewish-Christian religious writings mainly of the period 200 bc to ad 200 that are not included in any Scriptures but are biblical in style and are often purportedly written by a biblical character, e.g. the Psalms of Solomon, the Apocalypse of Abraham, the Testament of Adam, though some are anonymous: compare apocrypha
pseudepigraphal adj
pseudepigraphic /ˌs(y)oohdepiʹgrafik/ adj
pseudepigraphical /ˌs(y)oohdepiʹgrafikl/ adj
pseudepigraphous /-fəs/ adj
[Greek pseudepigrapha, neuter pl of pseudepigraphos falsely inscribed, written under a false name, from pseud- + epigraphein to inscribe, from epi- + graphein to write]