pseudepigraph

English

Noun

pseudepigraph (plural pseudepigraphs or pseudepigrapha)

1. A text that is attributed with a false author.
   • 1979, “Jewish Apocalyptic Literature”, in Wolfgang Haase, editor, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99:

     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.