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What are pseudepigrapha?

What are pseudepigrapha? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Writings falsely ascribed to famous persons (historical or mythical) to lend them greater legitimacy. They were typically composed many centuries after the ostensible author had died.
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The pseudepigrapha show the Pythagoreans anticipating the most characteristic ideas of Plato and Aristotle.
Heretical movements such as Gnosticism and Montanism spawned a great body of New Testament pseudepigrapha.
In assessing the significance of the Pseudepigrapha for Jesus research, one aspect is noncontroversial and indeed obvious.
Foxe's Chaucer both derived from and contributed to the printed editions of Chaucer's Works, particularly the pseudepigrapha.
Dr. Swiggett's semi-hysterical objections to my review suggest the anxieties of a cloistered exegete when he happens on an unexpected work of pseudepigrapha.
Many recent commentators simply acknowledge the New Testament's use of the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha and explain the text without addressing it as a theological problem.

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