Pseudo-Philo
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Pseudo-Philo[1][2][3] is the name commonly used for the unknown, anonymous author of the Biblical Antiquities.[4] This text is also commonly known today under the Latin title Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (Book of Biblical Antiquities), a title that is not found in the Latin manuscripts.[5] Although probably originally written in Hebrew,[6][7][8] it is preserved today only through a Latin translation found in 18 complete and 3 fragmentary manuscripts that date between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries CE.[9] In addition, material paralleling that in the Biblical Antiquities is also found in the Chronicles of Jerahmeel, a 14th-century Hebrew composition.[10][11] The Latin text of the Biblical Antiquities circulated alongside Latin translations of the authentic writings of Philo of Alexandria.[12] Scholars have long recognized the pseudonymous character of the text now known as the Biblical Antiquities.[13] Primary in this regard is a vastly differing approach to and use of the Jewish scriptures.[13] For the sake of convenience, scholars continue to follow the lead of Leopold Cohn in calling the unknown author "Pseudo-Philo".[14]