Pseudepigraphy: The Dominoes
eFireTemple.com There is a word that most people have never heard. It is not exotic. It is not obscure in academic circles. Every biblical scholar knows it. Every seminary teaches it. Every critical introduction to the Hebrew Bible uses it. The word is pseudepigraphy . It means writing under a false name. A pseudepigraphon is a text attributed to someone who did not write it — usually someone ancient, someone authoritative, someone whose name gives the text a credibility it would not possess if the real author were identified.
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eFireTemple.com There is a word that most people have never heard. It is not exotic. It is not obscure in academic circles. Every biblical scholar knows it. Every seminary teaches it. Every critical introduction to the Hebrew Bible uses it. The word is pseudepigraphy . It means writing under a false name. A pseudepigraphon is a text attributed to someone who did not write it — usually someone ancient, someone authoritative, someone whose name gives the text a credibility it would not possess if the real author were identified. The Book of Daniel is one of the most famous pseudepigrapha in the biblical canon. This is not a controversial statement. It is the consensus of critical biblical scholarship — Jewish, Christian, and secular. The Book of Daniel claims to be written by a prophet living in Babylon and Persia in the sixth century BCE.
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