Modern pseudepigrapha, or modern apocrypha, refer to pseudepigrapha of recent origin – any book written in the style of the books of the Bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

 or other religious scriptures, and claiming to be of similar age, but written in a much later (modern) period. They differ from apocrypha

Apocrypha

The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including "hidden", "esoteric", "spurious", "of questionable authenticity", ancient Chinese "revealed texts and objects" and "Christian texts that are not canonical"....

, which are books from or shortly after the scriptural period but not accepted into the religion's canon

Biblical canon

A biblical canon, or canon of scripture, is a list of books considered to be authoritative as scripture by a particular religious community. The term itself was first coined by Christians, but the idea is found in Jewish sources. The internal wording of the text can also be specified, for example...

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Examples

The following is a list of works commonly alleged to be modern pseudepigrapha:

• Acts chapter 29 (Sonnini Manuscript)
• Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ
• Archko Volume
  Archko Volume
  The Archko Volume or Archko Library is a 19th century book. It contains what it presents as a series of reports from Jewish and pagan sources contemporary with Christ that relate to the life and death of Jesus. The work went through a number of versions and has remained in print ever since...
  
  
• Book of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher)
  Book of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher)
  The Book of Jasher, or Pseudo-Jasher, is an 18th-century literary forgery by Jacob Ilive. It purports to be an English translation by Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus of a lost Book of Jasher...
  
  
• Letter of Benan
  Letter of Benan
  The Letter of Benan was a literary forgery issued by Ernst Edler von der Planitz in 1910, allegedly a translation from a fifth century Coptic papyrus containing a translation of an original composed in Greek in 83 CE...
  
  
• Life of Issa (allegedly discovered by Nicolas Notovitch
  Nicolas Notovitch
  Nicolas Notovitch was a Russian aristocrat, Cossack officer, spy and journalist known for his contention that during the years of Jesus Christ's life missing from the Bible, he followed travelling merchants abroad into India and the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, India, where he studied Buddhism.-Life...
  
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• Oahspe
  Oahspe
  Oahspe: A New Bible is a book published in 1882, purporting to contain "new revelations" from "...the Embassadors of the angel hosts of heaven prepared and revealed unto man in the name of Jehovih..." It was written by an American dentist, John Ballou Newbrough , who reported it to have been...