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  • From: "David Miller" <osdmiller AT roth.hul.huji.ac.il>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: what happened to Paul's epistle once written?
  • Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 09:57:45 -0400


> I've been searching for a long time resources about this concern: what
> happened to Paul's epistle once they were written? Of course they were
> carried by a courier =8B who was sometimes one of Paul's co-workers like
> Timotheus or Stephanas. But who read them? Were they read in front of the
> communities? Were they commented? How rough people like (for instance) the
> Galatians do understand the subtle argumentation of the apostle?

Have you looked at Harry Gamble's, <Books and Readers in the Early Church:
A History of Early Christian Texts.> New Haven, CN: Yale University Press,
1995? He deals with many of your questions.

David Miller
Ph.D. student, McMaster University
Visiting Research Student, Hebrew University





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