List_of_Old_Testament_Pseudepigrapha

List of Old Testament pseudepigrapha

List of Old Testament pseudepigrapha

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Pseudepigrapha are falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past.[1] Some of these works may have originated among Jewish Hellenizers, others may have Christian authorship in character and origin.[2]

Testaments

Expansions of Old Testament and other legends

Wisdom and philosophical literature

Prayers, Psalms, and Odes

  • More Psalms of David (Jewish psalms from c. 3rd cent. BC to 100 AD)
  • Prayer of Manasseh (sometimes in Apocrypha, Jewish from c. early 1st cent. AD)
  • Psalms of Solomon (Jewish, c. 50–5 BC)
  • Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers (Jewish, c. 2nd–3rd cent. AD)
  • Prayer of Joseph (Jewish, c. 70–135)
  • Prayer of Jacob (mostly lost Jewish document from c. 4th cent. AD)
  • Odes of Solomon (Christian but influenced by Judaism and probably also Qumran, c. 100 AD)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Bauckham, Richard; "Pseudo-Apostolic Letters", Journal of Biblical Literature, Vo. 107, No. 3, September 1988, pp.469–494.
  2. [2]
    The following list is based on James H. Charlesworth, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1983-1985 (two volumes).
  3. [3]
    Treatise of Shem

Bibliography

  • Lee Martin McDonald, The Origin of the Bible: A Guide for the Perplexed, London: T & T Clark, 2011.
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