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What does Antilegomena mean?

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17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

This is a technical theological term which refers to books which were either doubtful or uncertain. The term comes from two Greek words. The first anti is easily discernible and has the same meaning as today, essentially it means 'against'. The Greek verb lego, to say or speak makes the central core and the 'ena' an ending to complete the word.

From this it can be simply seen that the meaning of the terms is 'books spoken against'. In other words, books or works which had some kind of doubtful quality, at least in the eyes of the person who would place any particular work on their list of antilegomena.

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