RE: The Jesus story has details that is most definitely made up i just realized!!!
September 28, 2019 at 5:12 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2019 at 5:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Try Miller's "Pastoral Letters as Composite Documents". Theres a great summary of composite doc production as it relates to both the ot and the nt, and it's purpose, specifically in training up new clergy. The central point is that no singular paul (or psuedo paul) can claim authorship of the full contents. They were curated by scribal communities that we would call liturgical academies.
They're not letters at all, at least not in the form we have presented to us. They're wisdom sayings...on how to run a church. It even says so on the packaging, lol. We can imagine, if we like, that the authentics were "other than", but that's an amusing bit of compartmentalization...because even if the actual apostle paul really wrote everything we see in them guided by the correcting hand of an angel...that's not why the church selected what it did, from the available body of "paul", in any case.
They're not letters at all, at least not in the form we have presented to us. They're wisdom sayings...on how to run a church. It even says so on the packaging, lol. We can imagine, if we like, that the authentics were "other than", but that's an amusing bit of compartmentalization...because even if the actual apostle paul really wrote everything we see in them guided by the correcting hand of an angel...that's not why the church selected what it did, from the available body of "paul", in any case.
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