Corpus-Paul

[Zeba Crook <zcrook AT chass.utoronto.ca>]

On the issue of whether any of Paul's letters were "heavily redacted" 
after his death, see David Trobish's short English study *Paul's Letter
Collection* (1994).  

Zeb
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On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Jim West wrote:

> 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
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Jim West, ThD
> email- jwest AT highland.net
> web page-  http://web.infoave.net/~jwest
> 
> 'Mythology is what never was but always is.' Stephen of Byzantium
> 
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