Statement

Since there was no way to authenticate a work as genuinely biblical, authors tried to pass certain texts off as biblical by imitating the style of Genesis and ascribing authorship to figures like Moses and Solomon, producing the writings now called the Pseudepigrapha, from the Greek for 'false writing'. There are many, written in the centuries after the Persian period, attributed to Enoch, Moses and others, but they did not enter today's Jewish canon.

References

1. p. 51

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   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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