Corpus-Paul

[Christopher Hutson <crhutson AT salisbury.net>]

>From: Patrick Nugent <nugenpa AT earlham.edu>
>
>Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, in his recent biography of Paul, argues that
if we
>look at 2Tim in isolation from 1Tim and Titus, the grounds for
pseudonymity
>fall away.  O'Connor thinks it likely that 2 Tim is authentic.
>Murphy-O'Connor argues this point at greater length in an older
piece, "2
>Timothy Contrasted with 1 Timothy and Titus," RB 98 (1991): 403-418. 
Brown
>in his Introduction to the NT  sifts very nicely through the evidence
and
>arguments, but concludes himself (p. 674) that 2 Tim is pseudonymous,
but
>not by the same author as 1Tim/Titus.

Patrick, I reviewed Murphy-O'Connor's arguments in RB very carefully,
but to my mind all he presented were hairsplitting minor distinctions
without differences.  Perhaps I missed something.  What specific
detail(s) in his case did you find most convincing?  

Cordially,

XPIC

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Christopher R. Hutson
          Hood Theological Seminary
          Salisbury, NC  28144
crhutson AT salisbury.net
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