Authentic and Disputed Letters of Paul. Letters/Epistles Letters could be written in different ways ...

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Authentic and Disputed Letters of Paul

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Authentic and Disputed

Letters of Paul

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Letters/EpistlesLetters could be written in

different ways Sometimes by the sender’s

own hand and sometimes dictated

Each syllable might be copied by a recording secretaryWith an editor introduced to

correct mistakes A scribe was almost a

coauthor, to create the final form of the letter.

Pauline letters were meant to be read aloud in order to persuade. Like speeches, they can be

judged as rhetoric, in terms of the authority of writer, the quality of the writings, and the desired effect on the audience.

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Background InformationThe letters attributed to Paul

make up approximately one-half of the New Testament

These letters are best described as pastoral (apostolic): basic function was to

speak/teach in the absence of the apostle

The majority of the letters are written to churches Paul had already established Intention was church

maintenance

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Authentic and Disputed Letters of Paul

Authentic:1 Thessalonians1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansPhilippiansGalatiansPhilemonRomans

Disputed:2 ThessaloniansColossiansEphesians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitus

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Disputed Letters: Style Vocabulary Ideas content slightly

different or more developed than traditional Paul

Authentic lettersLanguage: vocabulary

and styleTheologyHistorical Situation

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Pseudonimity (false name) The attachment of a famous name

to a bookCommon phenomena amongst

the ancients who had no concept of intellectual property

Fostered by writers that revered or venerated the person who bore these names

It is not plagiarism or an attempt to misleadit is suggested of a school

mentality: students know their

master’s teachings intimately and therefore feel qualified to reproduce it in their absence

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Paul’s Modus Operandi

How did a Christian missionary like Paul, after arriving in a new city where he had no contacts, actually go about meeting people and talking to them about religion in an effort to convert them?

Paul arrived in town as a complete stranger, he would simply stand on a crowded street corner and preach to those passing by, hoping to win converts by his sincerity and charisma and by the appeal of his message. This was the method followed among some of the

philosophers in the Greco-Roman world; BUT Paul gives no indication that this is how he proceeded.

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Paul’s Modus Operandi In Acts, Paul invariably

makes new contacts by going to the local synagogue, where as a traveling Jew he would be quite welcome, and sung the worship service there as an occasion to speak of his belief in Jesus as the messiah come in fulfillment of the Scripture.

Recent scholars have realized that PaulLiterally means that

the had been working full time and had used his place of business as a point of contact with people to proclaim the gospel.

Paul preached while on the job.

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Ephesus

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Ephesus

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Colossae

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Colossae

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Philippi

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Philippi

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Philippi

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Corinth

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Corinth

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Corinth

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Thessalonica

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Thessalonica

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How did Paul die?

How did Peter die?