Ancient Attribution: Humble Anonymity or Pseudepigrapha‎

Hi PD,A comment on another thread led me to thinking about which books of the Old testament do we actually know the author of.On another thread it was mentioned that David wrote the Psalms, or at least almost all the Psalms as Solomon was said to have written some (72 and 127), Hezikiah wrote about a dozen, Heman wrote Pslam 88, Ethan Psalm 89, Asaph wrote about a dozen too.Anyway, it was the David comment that got me to thinking about authorship. Now, a great many people do not think that David wrote the Psalms alloted to him, a lot of people are not even convinced that there ever was a historical King David. So, *if* there wasn't an historical David then wouldn't David's Psalms be pseudopigraphic? (This would go for Moses' books too although the Bible never claims Moses wrote any books)This led to another thought, technically speaking, we do not know who wrote any of the Old Testament books, so is it possible that the entire Old Testament is pseudopigraphic?Brian.

Hi,I'm going off line very shortly, thanks for the reply, I'll answer tomorrow.However, before I go: Well, you did say that you have no formal training in biblical studies.Brian.