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  • From: Richard Fellows <rfellows AT shaw.ca>
  • To: Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] partition theories and copying practices
  • Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 12:19:18 -0800

Ian,

Good question. You may like to review the discussion that we started on 18th
Oct 2003 on a very similar issue.

I used to have difficulties with the unity of 2 Corinthians, but I now feel
that these difficulties disappear when we correctly understand the
historical background of the letter. The literary and historical puzzles in
the Corinthian correspondence are not independent, but need to be tackled
together.

Richard Fellows.

Ian Scott wrote:
> I am teaching on partition theories in 2 Cor and Phil over the next little
> while and have realized that in most of my own reading there is little
> discussion of the actual process by which letters would be stripped of
their
> epistolary introductions and then attached to other letters. Of course,
this
> could be a deliberate procedure, but in that case I am unclear about the
> motive for doing it. In particular, I am wondering whether any list
members
> know of evidence from the broader Greco-Roman world for this kind of
> dislocation in the ordinary process of scribal transmission. What I am
> thinking of is not simply places in other Greek writings which are thought
to
> be displaced, but e.g. references to such displacement or to scribal
practices
> which would explain it.






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