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'''Pseudepigrapha''' are falsely attributed works, [[texts]] whose claimed [[authorship]] is unfounded; a work, simply, "whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past."[1] The word "pseudepigrapha" (from the Greek: ψευδής, pseudēs, "false" and ἐπιγραφή, epigraphē, "inscription"; see the related epigraphy) is the plural of "pseudepigraphon" (sometimes Latinized as "pseudepigraphum"); the Anglicized forms "pseudepigraph" and "pseudepigraphs" are also used.

'''Pseudepigrapha''' are falsely attributed works, [[texts]] whose claimed [[authorship]] is unfounded; a work, simply, "whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past."[1] The word "pseudepigrapha" (from the Greek: ψευδής, pseudēs, "false" and ἐπιγραφή, epigraphē, "inscription"; see the related epigraphy) is the plural of "pseudepigraphon" (sometimes Latinized as "pseudepigraphum"); the Anglicized forms "pseudepigraph" and "pseudepigraphs" are also used.

The [[Book of Enoch]] is an example of a pseudepigraph; no [[Hebrew]] [[scholars]] would ascribe its authorship to Enoch, a figure mentioned in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.5 Genesis 5]. Nevertheless, in some cases, especially for [[books]] belonging to a religious [[canon]], the question of whether a text is pseudepigraphical or not elicits sensations of [[loyalty]] and can become a matter of heavy [[Debate|dispute]]. The authenticity or [[value]] of the work itself, which is a separate question for [[experience]]d [[readers]], often becomes sentimentally [[Entanglement|entangled]] in the [[association]]. Though the inherent [[value]] of the [[text]] may not be called into question, the weight of a revered or even [[apostolic]] [[author]] lends [[authority]] to a [[text]]: in Antiquity pseudepigraphy was "an accepted and honored custom practiced by students/admirers of a revered figure".[2] This is the [[essential]] [[motivation]] for pseudepigraphy in the first place.

The [[Book of Enoch]] is an example of a pseudepigraph; no [[Hebrew]] [[scholars]] would ascribe its authorship to Enoch, a figure mentioned in [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.5 Genesis 5]. Nevertheless, in some cases, especially for [[books]] belonging to a religious [[canon]], the question of whether a text is pseudepigraphical or not elicits sensations of [[loyalty]] and can become a matter of heavy [[Debate|dispute]]. The authenticity or [[value]] of the work itself, which is a separate question for [[experience]]d [[readers]], often becomes sentimentally [[Entanglement|entangled]] in the [[association]]. Though the inherent [[value]] of the [[text]] may not be called into question, the weight of a revered or even [[apostolic]] [[author]] lends [[authority]] to a [[text]]: in Antiquity pseudepigraphy was "an accepted and honored custom practiced by students/admirers of a revered figure".[2] This is the [[essential]] [[motivation]] for pseudepigraphy in the first place.

Pseudepigraphy covers the false ascription of names of authors to works, even to perfectly authentic works that make no such claim within their text. Thus a widely accepted but incorrect attribution of authorship may make a perfectly authentic text pseudepigraphical. Assessing the actual writer of a text brings questions of pseudepigraphical attributions within the [[discipline]] of [[literary criticism]]. In a [[parallel]] case, forgers have been known to improve the [[Commerce|market]] value of a perfectly genuine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Century 17th-century] Dutch painting by adding a painted signature [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt Rembrandt] fecit.

Pseudepigraphy covers the false ascription of names of authors to works, even to perfectly authentic works that make no such claim within their text. Thus a widely accepted but incorrect attribution of authorship may make a perfectly authentic text pseudepigraphical. Assessing the actual writer of a text brings questions of pseudepigraphical attributions within the [[discipline]] of [[literary criticism]]. In a [[parallel]] case, forgers have been known to improve the [[Commerce|market]] value of a perfectly genuine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Century 17th-century] Dutch painting by adding a painted signature [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt Rembrandt] fecit.