Corpus-Paul

["Perry L. Stepp" <plstepp AT flash.net>]

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From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
>>> 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.

I think Jimi ("Purple Haze, all in my brain"  "Been working on your
dissertation again, eh?") is referring to the various composite (?)
hypotheses.  Among the most discussed are: that Rom 16 was originally part
of another letter; that Philippians and 2 Corinthians are in reality several
letters edited together.  Of these: probably the most widely adhered to is
the suggestion that 2 Cor is a composite of several pauline letters.

None of these hypotheses has achieved "majority opinion" status.

Perry L. Stepp

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