(February 10, 2018 at 3:00 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Nearly all scholars believe that a single person was the author of 1st and 2nd Corinthians, and I am taking that as being axiomatic.
Actually, scholars have come to realize that "2d Corinthians" is a compilation of letters by a later redactor rather than a single letter.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/2corinthians.html
Quote:However, there are difficulties that have suggested to several commentators that 2 Corinthians has been compiled from several pieces of correspondence. Since the "sorrowful letter" mentioned in 2:4 does not describe 1 Corinthians, we know that Paul had written at least three letters to the Corinthians. A quite reasonable suggestion is that the last four chapters contain the "sorrowful letter" that is mentioned in 2:4.
Of course the question of when this paul character would have been writing to alleged xtians in Corinth remains open.