(June 16, 2012 at 12:15 am)cratehorus Wrote: Some of the letters weren't written by Paul? Who were they written by then?
"Pseudo-epigraphy" and "interpolation" were common problems with holy scriptures at the time. If you were a religious leader and you wanted your ideas to take hold, you'd "discover" some writings of a prophet more reputable. Roughly half of the Pauline epistles are considered of questionable authenticity. And this is to say nothing of the problems of "interpolation", alterations whether deliberate or accidental, are known to change scriptures over time.
Mark 16 is a famous and undisputed example. Everything after verse 8 was a later addition.
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