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Lastly, we'll subtract Philemon and Philippians. The corpus of "Paul" used for training is thus reduced to 1 Cor, 2 Cor, Gal (shorter), and 1 Thess. In this context, even that second half of the 'shorter' letter of Romans is getting to be a very narrow match. There might seem to be somethi...

Now let's subtract Colossians. We're now using the most common scholarly definition of the rest of Paul--the letters 1 Cor, 2 Cor, Gal (albeit shorter), 1 Thess, Phillipians, and Philemon. We still see the same thing happening with 'shorter' Romans: one match. Possibly the first half has not removed...

Now let's subtract Ephesians (Laodiceans?). Things start going a little bit to "hell" for Romans. It's still possible/plausible that the 'shorter' epistle is authentic "Paul" (without Eph), as it still gets one match. However, the 'additions' and all three parts of the 'longer' R...

Okay, then, well, back to the stylometry and back to measuring how well the sections of Romans rate against the rest of "Paul." Perhaps we'll find some clues to our questions here yet. We've now subtracted 2 Thessalonians from the training set. The two 'shorter' sections still are matched ...

As a matter of fact, the latest scholarship for both canonical and non-canonical texts allows scholars to place certain reflections and actions that have been traced to Jesus along a sliding scale from most likely to least likely. This sliding scale is not geared to vague preferences for one idea o...

The type of "self-plagiarism" you're suggesting would pretty much require Paul to have written written Ephesians after writing Colossians, with the latter still unsent sitting on his desk for comparison. Possible, I suppose. Yes. Unless it were Colossians that were written with reference ...

Isn't one of the (many) signs of forgery in the deutero-paulines that they copy the contents of other epistles in a way that an authentic epistle would not? As a non-stylometric question, I'm not really so sure about this. Consider that "Ephesians" is called "Laodiceans" in the ...

Isn't one of the (many) signs of forgery in the deutero-paulines that they copy the contents of other epistles in a way that an authentic epistle would not? E.g. 2 Thessalonians copying from 1 Thessalonians to appear Pauline, Ephesians copying about 50% of Colossians, etc. Naturally, if you build a...

So far we have shown that it is possible to start with 1 Corinthians and with 'shorter' Romans and show that the samples match closest to the rest of their text. We've also shown that it is possible to start with 'shorter'/'longer' Romans and with 1 Corinthians and show that the samples of 2 Corinth...

That's not exactly good for 'Philemon'. Apparently Colossians fares better on its own than it does with its junior partner. But wait... there's more! You see, if we add Ephesians to the mix, or if we add Ephesians and 2 Thessalonians to the mix, then the picture changes. The result was negative wit...