pseudepigrapha

noun

52 texts written between 200 BC and AD 200 but ascribed to various prophets and kings in the Hebrew scriptures

Roots

pseudespseud- · Greek · false epiepi- · Greek · upon graphegrapha- · Greek · writing

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