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(7) A second century invention of pre-70 setting (1 Cor 9:17) letters would not expect the end of the world so immediately in such a fictive setting (1 Thess 4:17), a point of view already contradicted by the time of the second century. Indeed this very contradiction is noted in later texts (John 2...

the minimal definition is the following: the school of X exists if X is surrounded by co-workers and co-writers who engage whole books and that are in the presence of elaborate manuscripts. (1) multiple writers (2) access to sources Is this what you are calling a "school"? and a third req...

More questions present themselves: (1) What is the minimum definition of a "school"? (2) What is the minimum required to consider a school "Pauline"? For example, if this "school" that was producing Pauline letters were neither Marcionite nor Valentinian but prior to b...

JarekS wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 8:47 pm After 100 CE, a collection of letters appeared

do you mean "after 135" (if you agree with a post-Acts dating of the letters)?

(7) A second century invention of pre-70 setting (1 Cor 9:17) letters would not expect the end of the world so immediately in such a fictive setting (1 Thess 4:17), a point of view already contradicted by the time of the second century. Indeed this very contradiction is noted in later texts (John 2...

Hi Giuseppe, I have some reservations about this theory and I am curious how you or Livesey would respond to them. It has been stated that the epistolary form of the Moral Epistles serves, at least in part, the pedagogical purpose of the work. I can totally see that and it reminds me of dialogues (...

Godfrey writes: (A passage found in a work by the Jewish historian Josephus, even if only partially authentic, can tell us nothing more than what was being said about Jesus some sixty years after he was supposed to have lived.) I understand that the quote has been taken from a post designed to &quo...

13:7: When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. The best example of "rumor of wars" in my opinion is the hearsay about revolts in Cyrene. The requisite of remote distance is satisfied, just as the Messianic ambition ...

More questions present themselves: (1) What is the minimum definition of a "school"? (2) What is the minimum required to consider a school "Pauline"? For example, if this "school" that was producing Pauline letters were neither Marcionite nor Valentinian but prior to b...

And by Tertullian against Marcion.