This is the "Later Letters of Paul" effect, also seen in historic Chinese philosophical writings. One uses the name of a famous or canonical figure to lend credence or divine attribution to one's own writing. One want's one's ideas accepted more than one wants to credit.
Sort of the inverse of plagiarism.
What is the term for this?
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Such texts are called pseudepigrapha; the adjective form pseudepigraphic is a little more common.