pseudepigraphs
pseudepigraphs is the plural of pseudepigraph.
Meaning of pseudepigraph
Noun
pseudepigraph (plural pseudepigraphs or pseudepigrapha)
- A text that is attributed with a false author.
- This ascription is generally believed to be fictitious, but this does not make the book a pseudepigraph, in the sense the term has in the history of the so-called intertestamental literature.1979, “Jewish Apocalyptic Literature”, in Wolfgang Haase, editor, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99
Questions about pseudepigraphs
- What is pseudepigraphs the plural of?
- Pseudepigraphs is the plural of pseudepigraph.
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