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[Jeff Peterson <peterson AT mail.austingrad.edu>]

Title: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Paul the Author

As I said: Stowers anticipated "a significant element of [Malherbe's] defense" of 2 Thess. as genuine -- i.e., there are other elements of the defense, in response to other bases on which pseudonymity has been argued. But it's wholly true that response to Malherbe must be part of a credible defense of pseudonymity.

Jeff Peterson

I think what you have stated is only partially true.  There is a range of reasons why people have argued against Paul's authorship of 2 Thessalonians.  I traced this debate from Hugo Grotius onward in the first 70 or so pages of my dissertation, "Second Thessalonians as a Document of Early Christian Rhetoric" (Northwestern University 1984).  I thought nobody would be interested in that history of scholarship, so I didn't put it into Early Christian Rhetoric and 2 Thessalonians (JSNTSup 30, 1989).  But I published a chunk of it in my article, "Thessalonians, First and Second Letters to the," in Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. John H. Hayes (Nashville: Abingdon, 1999) 2.568-72.

Frank W. Hughes
Lecturer in New Testament Studies
Codrington College
Barbados

Jeff Peterson wrote:

Re: [Corpus-Paul] Paul the Author

Permit me to rephrase: maintaining that 2 Thess is pseudonymous requires answering Malherbe's defense of its Pauline authorship. Stan Stowers anticipated a significant element of this defense with his remark in A REREADING OF ROMANS that many deny 2 Thess to Paul out of distaste for the eschatology of chap. 2 and the desire to avoid attributing this to Paul.

Jeff

At 8:07 AM -0500 4/8/03, Frank W. Hughes wrote:

I have seen it.
Frank+

Jeff Peterson wrote:

Re: [Corpus-Paul] Paul the Author

At 2:45 PM -0500 4/7/03, Frank W. Hughes wrote:

 The best example of this approach is Wolfgang Trilling, Untersuchungen zum Zweiten Thessalonicherbrief.  His synthetic approach, I think, changed a lot of minds in Germany about the authorship of 2 Thessalonians.

One must see now Abraham Malherbe's AB on Thessalonians, which makes a sober case for Pauline authorship of 2 Thess (not driven by theological commitments, as Malherbe takes the Pastorals as pseudonymous), including response to Trilling's various arguments.

Jeff Peterson

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