The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context

Auteur

Nina E. Livesey is Professor of Religious Studies, Emerita at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Circumcision as a Malleable Symbol (2010) and Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis (2016).

Texte du rabat

This study argues that the seven letters of Paul, widely assumed as authentic, should be reclassified as pseudonymous. Nina E. Livesey suggests that authors of Pauline letters exploited the letter genre for its rhetorical benefits to promote disciplinary teachings, and dates the letters' emergence to the mid-second century.

Contenu

Introduction: challenging a prevailing paradigm; 1. The press toward the authentic-letter perspective; 2. Paul, pauline communities, and genuine correspondence; 3. Seneca's moral epistles and pauline letters as teachings; 4. Pauline letters as second century school-setting compositions; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.