Pseudo Philo

Pseudo-Philo’s Liber antiquitatum biblicarum (Biblical Antiquities) is a midrashic retelling of biblical history from Adam to David. Probably originally composed in Hebrew and later translated into Greek, the text survives in several Latin manuscripts. Pseudo-Philo may have been written as early as the first or even second century B.C.E., but most scholars favor a date toward the end of the first century C.E. Somewhere along the line this book came to be assigned to Philo Judaeus of Alexandria (see ch. 5), but there is little chance that he was its author; hence the title, “Pseudo-Philo.”

Craig A. Evans, Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005), 49.