Corpus-Paul

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

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From: Yuri Kuchinsky <yuku AT globalserve.net>

>But perhaps it is appropriate here to express some concern about the
>proportionality. Indeed, if the variety is the spice of life in Pauline
>scholarship, as it should be, isn't it a little troubling that so few
>scholars today express any doubts or reservations about the authenticity
>of the hallowed "Authentic 7" epistles?

I don't find it troubling (or "unfortunate", the word you later apply to the
situation) at all--I don't think consensus is an evil thing, and I don't
feel the need to be deliberately provocative for provocation's sake.
Sometimes homogeneity (spelling?) simply indicates that the debate is over,
one side was right and the other side was wrong (okay, maybe a *little* bit
of intentional provocation.)

PLStepp

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