List of Old Testament 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. Some of these works may have originated among Jewish Hellenizers, others may have Christian authorship in character and origin.

Apocalyptic and related works

  • 1 Enoch
  • 2 Enoch
  • 3 Enoch
  • Sibylline Oracles
  • Treatise of Shem
  • Apocryphon of Ezekiel
  • Apocalypse of Zephaniah
  • 4 Ezra
  • Greek Apocalypse of Ezra
  • Vision of Ezra
  • Questions of Ezra
  • Revelation of Ezra
  • Apocalypse of Sedrach
  • 2 Baruch
  • 3 Baruch
  • Apocalypse of Abraham
  • Apocalypse of Adam
  • Apocalypse of Elijah
  • Apocalypse of Daniel.

    Testaments

  • Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
  • Testament of Job
  • Testaments of the Three Patriarchs
  • Testament of Moses
  • Testament of Solomon
  • Testament of Adam.

    Expansions of Old Testament and other legends

  • The Letter of Aristeas
  • Jubilees
  • Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah
  • Joseph and Asenath
  • Life of Adam and Eve
  • Pseudo-Philo
  • Lives of the Prophets
  • Ladder of Jacob
  • 4 Baruch
  • Jannes and Jambres
  • History of the Rechabites
  • Eldad and Modat
  • History of Joseph
  • Story of Melchizedek
  • Sefer Yetzirah
  • Sepher Raziel

    Wisdom and philosophical literature

  • Ahiqar
  • 3 Maccabees
  • 4 Maccabees
  • Pseudo-Phocylides
  • The Sentences of the Syriac Menander.

    Prayers, Psalms, and Odes

  • More Psalms of David
  • Prayer of Manasseh
  • Psalms of Solomon
  • Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers
  • Prayer of Joseph
  • Prayer of Jacob
  • Odes of Solomon