Corpus-Paul

[Jeff Peterson <peterson AT mail.ics.edu>]

Many thanks to Frank for the __Forschungsbericht_ on authorship of 2 Thess.
One supplement to the comment:
>Baur also denied Pauline authorship of both 1 and 2 Thess., evidently
>because of their lack of justification by faith. 

Baur found the commendation of Judean Christian churches in 1 Thess 2:13-16
_unpaulinisch_ and so proposed that the letter was post-Pauline, reflective
of the Pauline rapprochement with the Petrines; I don't recall whether he
mentions justification by faith in this connection or not. (It's
interesting that Rainer Riesner has recently argued that references to
PISTIS in 1 Thess presuppose the fuller doctrine of Galatians and Romans
[_Paul's Early Period_].) This is of course the passage that has recently
struck Birger Pearson and others as post-Pauline, though they have opted
for less radical surgery than Baur. The passage has IMHO been better
understood by John Hurd and Carol Schleuter (_"Filling Up the Measure":
Polemical Hyperbole in 1 Thess 2:13-16_, JSNTSup).

Jeff

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Jeffrey Peterson
Institute for Christian Studies
Austin, Texas, USA
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