Corpus-Paul

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 01:35 PM 10/6/99 -0500, you wrote:

>> I have for some time been aware of the general scholarly concensus that
>> the so-called "pastoral" epistles (I&II Tim, Titus) are not authentically
>> Pauline, which is to say not written by HP. I am wondering what the degree
>> of certainty is regarding the other letters of the Pauline corpus.

I subscribe to the traditional 7 epistle corpus for Paul.  I.e., he wrote
Romans, 1-2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, Philemon.
The others, 2 Thess, Colossians, Ephesians, and the Pastorals, are 
pseudonymous.

 Also
>> which letters are considered to originate with HP but in their current
>> form represent heavily redacted or interpolated versions of the original.

I am not sure what you mean here.  Do you mean stuff Paul wrote and then was
heavily redacted?  I dont think any of the letters fall into that category.
We have Paul and then we have stuff by disciples/followers of Paul.  But I
dont think we have anything Pauls wrote but was then rewritten by someone 
else.

Best,

Jim

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