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  • From: Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: the paul quest
  • Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 13:47:34 -0400


Dan,

At 09:45 AM 5/22/99 -0700, you wrote:

>However, you do need to be aware that, throughout the book, Witherington
>deals with Paul and his "theologizing" from the standpoint of a
>13-letter canon. That was fine with me, since I hold to generally the
>same authorship position. On the other hand, if I remember correctly,
>you hold to a relatively "short" Pauline canon (excluding the Pastorals,
>Colossians, Ephesians, I Thess). Is that true? If so, you may end up
>using the book as a foil against which to argue, just a bit more often
>than you might like.

I think texts that dont precisely mirror the views of the professor are
usually the most helpful to students. I usually pick texts with which I
have some disagreements so that the students get "both sides".

Thanks for your assessment.

Best,

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
email- jwest AT highland.net
web page- http://web.infoave.net/~jwest





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