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  • From: "Edgar M. Krentz" <ekrentz AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Onesimus and Onesiphorus
  • Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:27:23 -0500


Dear Dave,

It is quite possible that Onesimus and Onesiphorus are the same person. I
am not sure, however, that the reference to 'chains' is a valid
connection. It might be if all three letters (Col, Phlmn, 2 Tim) were
written from the same prison but this is not certain. Personally I suspect
that 2 Tim was written during Paul's second imprisonment in Rome and
shortly before his death (in 64) while Col and Phlmn were written and
posted (with Ephesians) from prison in Ephesus in 62 (Following Paul's
release from Rome at the end of Acts).

Kym Smith
Adelaide
South Australia
khs AT picknowl.com.au

Have you considered at all the heavy reasons for considering all three of these as deutero-pauline letters? Read one of the recent introductions to the NT, say that of Raymond Brown or Udo Schnelle. There are very strong reasons to think they are not by Paul--which says nothing about their canonical and theological significance.

And have you asked whether the two names may not have different
significations?

Of course, if you have thought these through well, then you are not just following a traditionalist approach.

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