Corpus-Paul

[Micheal Palmer <mwpalmer AT earthlink.net>]

>At 11:01 AM -0500 4/2/99, George Blaisdell wrote:
>
>>Were the gospels then written with the Pauline Corpus clearly in view?
>
And I responded:
>I seriously doubt it.  There is evidence to suggest that the Pauline corpus
>was in circulation as a unit by around 90 CE, but that is well after the
>latest of the Gospels. It is possible that one or more of the Gospel
>writers had access to individual letters of Paul, but I doubt any had the
>whole collection.

Hmm. I was writing a little too fast. 90 CE would not be "well after" the
writing of John's Gospel. Still, there is no real evidence to suggest that
the author of that Gospel had a copy of Paul's letters.


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Micheal W. Palmer                                  mwpalmer AT earthlink.net
North Carolina State University
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Foreign Languages (Ancient Greek)

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