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or the so-called "Deutro-canonical" books of the Old Testa-
ment. Secondly, their authorship is not known. They
bear the names of Enoch, Moses, Baruch, Ezra, but their
real authors or editors seem to have known the final
destruction of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jews
under the Romans. These pseudonyms were chosen, not
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for fraudulent purposes, but out of a pious motive by the
Sophees or Seers who composed them. Did not Plato put
his own views and dialectics into the mouth of his master,
Socrates? Thirdly, "these books," in the words of the
Grand Rabbin Paul Haguenauer, "in an enigmatical, mystical,
ment. Secondly, their authorship is not known. They
bear the names of Enoch, Moses, Baruch, Ezra, but their
real authors or editors seem to have known the final
destruction of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jews
under the Romans. These pseudonyms were chosen, not
133
for fraudulent purposes, but out of a pious motive by the
Sophees or Seers who composed them. Did not Plato put
his own views and dialectics into the mouth of his master,
Socrates? Thirdly, "these books," in the words of the
Grand Rabbin Paul Haguenauer, "in an enigmatical, mystical,