Corpus-Paul

["George Blaisdell" <maqhth AT hotmail.com>]

This posting was missent to corpus-paul list.  

Sorry!!  I intended it as a private post.

Unlike b-greek, my 'reply' function, when I respond to a list posting, 
is sent to the list, as well as is my 'reply all' function.  I will have 
to delete private responses to Paul postings of their corpus paul 
address in the future.

George Blaisdell

>From: "George Blaisdell" <maqhth AT hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Subject: Re: Pauline Authorship of Hebrews
>Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 08:12:06 PST
>
>Licia ~
>
>Thank-you for articulating and theoretically accounting for my profound 
>frustration with reading Paul.
>
>I doubt that it belongs on list ~ We'll see what happens ~ But it seems 
>utterly germaine to me, in that systematic exegetical types, [such as 
>you!] will find endless controversies with which to occupy themselves 
in 
>their efforts to 'rein in' the Pauline material!
>
>Paul just does not seem to know how to make a statement and let it sink 
>in!  And perhaps this is just what he is not supposed to do!
>
>Ah jus' dunno!
>
>George
>
>
>>From: Licia Kuenning <Licia AT compuserve.com>
>>Reply-To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>>To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>>CC: Larry Kuenning <kuenning-larry AT voicenet.com>
>>Subject: Re: Pauline Authorship of Hebrews
>>Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 22:56:12 -0500
>>
>>Since I was the first on this list to say that Paul didn't write
>>Hebrews I should probably confess that my reason for
>>thinking so may be a bit outside the scope of the reasons
>>most people here would be likely to apply.  It comes of
>>having internalized the system of personality typology that
>>divides people into Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, and Intuitive
>>types (one is born with one's type and retains it throughout
>>life).  This is the theory set forth in Michael Malone's book
>>_Psychetypes_, on the off-chance anyone here is acquainted
>>with it.  Despite having been mostly skeptical of psychological
>>typologies prior to learning this one, I was persuaded of the
>>theory (one of the developers of which I knew personally and
>>typed her book manuscript) because I found that it really did
>>fit most people that I got to know.
>>
>>Having been of the opinion that Paul was an Intuitive, I picked
>>up and read Hebrews one day and said, "Hey, this essay was
>>written by a Thinking type."
>>
>>I can't usually type someone from one piece of writing, and
>>I certainly can't type all of the biblical authors; but the logical
>>cognitive style of the author of Hebrews is quite striking.
>>This author remembers where his argument has been, and where
>>it's going, and what it's based on, and what follows from what.
>>It is almost like a modern scholarly paper--if citational footnotes
>>had been invented you could see them in it.
>>
>>Paul isn't logical--he meanders around and supports his positions
>>with arguments that are not to his point, or go further than he
>>needs, or can't be systematically maintained.
>>
>>I think it is more than a difference of literary style; it's a
>>difference of cognitive style.  A person can't really be "all
>>things"; one is limited by the way one's brain is organized.
>>The sort of mind that produced Hebrews wouldn't have written
>>the letters of Paul: I'm speaking from the Thinking type's point
>>of view, being one myself; I would have been embarrassed to
>>put forward some of the arguments Paul uses.  Which is not
>>to say that Paul was wrong to use them.  I usually don't
>>get along well with Intuitives, but God created a great many
>>of them without asking my opinion.  :)
>>
>>Well, I apologize if this is not strictly the type of reasoning
>>appropriate to the list, but I thought I might as well
>>communicate it.  Please don't ask me to elaborate much
>>on it, as my memory of the texts is rusty at this point, and
>>I don't have a lot of time to put in.  (I spent all day
>>researching the history of the canon for a nonacademic
>>list which probably won't appreciate it, and told myself:
>>I really must devote less time to the Internet.)
>>
>>Licia Kuenning
>>wife of Larry Kuenning, who is known to Ioudaios folks.
>>
>>Licia AT compuserve.com
>>kuenning-licia AT voicenet.com
>>
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