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  • From: "David C. Hindley" <dhindley AT compuserve.com>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Silvanus and Timothy in 2 Cor 1:19
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:01:01 -0400


Richard Fellows comments:

>>Extensive editing of the names in the letters seems unlikely to me. If
there was an editor who freely amended the names, why did he leave us with
both Cephas and Peter in Galatians? Any why did he not change all the
mentions of 'Titus' to 'Timothy' (it would have avoided lots of confusion).
And Crispus to Sosthenes? Translators of Galatians (and a few copyists) feel
the need to harmonize the references to Cephas-Petros, so why didn't your
hypothetical creative editor do the same? And why did he not disambiguate
the Mark of Philemon, as the author of Colossians attempted to do?<<

First of all, it is not "my" hypothetical editor, it is Trobisch's. I would
also not call Trobisch's editor "creative" but pragmatic. However, if you do
not like the editor's decisions, you will have to take it up with Paul, as
Trobisch thinks Paul published Rom, 1&2 Cor and Galatians as a unit himself.

But you do not seem to be aware of the collective steps that Trobisch thinks
the Pauline corpus has undergone to come to its present form. Based upon
relative length and the way the letters are addressed, he finds they fall
into three basic groupings: Rom, 1 & 2 Cor, & Gal were published as a group,
possibly by Paul himself; to this was added Ephesians as an appendix. The
books of Phil, Col, and 1 & 2 Thess also formed an independent group. The
pastorals, 1 & 2 Tim, Titus and Phm, also formed an independent grouping.

Each grouping was collected and published for a reason, and publishers
always have their agendas. It is possible that the second grouping was added
to the first, and published as a unit, and then the third group was also
added and the resulting works published as a unit. Hebrews was probably
added to this last published unit at a later time. At each of these 4 steps,
the publisher(s) may have made changes and corrections, adding comments or
clarifying statements or removing extraneous matter. If there are up to four
editors, there is no guarantee that their individual agendas worked in
harmony with one another.

Respectfully,

Dave Hindley
Cleveland, Ohio, USA






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