Paul and Pseudepigraphy (Pauline Studies, Book 8)

284 bryan r. dyer autograph in 2 Thess 3:17 serves the function of authenticating the letter.77 one must not make too much of th ...

the epistolary closing of hebrews and pauline imitation 285 other early Christian letter closings of his day than that he intent ...

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III. PaulIne PseudePIgraPhy outsIde the ChrIstIan Canon ...

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dustIng off a Pseudo-hIstorICal letter: re-thInkIng the ePIstolary asPeCts of the aPoCryPhal ePIstle to the laodICeans1 Philip l ...

290 philip l. tite “dismissal” approach has resulted in three assumptions about the letter.3 first, that it is the product of a ...

dusting off a pseudo-historical letter 291 and third, the letter is unworthy of scholarly attention. only when the letter is per ...

292 philip l. tite purposeful structure and articulates a clear rhetorical situation, albeit a fictional one.5 laodiceans deserv ...

dusting off a pseudo-historical letter 293 the conflict prompting the letter’s composition.7 the adscriptio is similar to gal 1: ...

294 philip l. tite Thanksgiving the thanksgiving period is immediately marked in v. 3 by Ps.-Paul’s expres- sion of thanks (grat ...

dusting off a pseudo-historical letter 295 the temporal qualification is the contrast drawn between the recipi- ents’ present st ...

296 philip l. tite expansions from the prescript to the thanksgiving, Ps.-Paul evokes a simi- lar positional move as that taken ...

dusting off a pseudo-historical letter 297 motivation for writing; i.e., a wish that the recipients not be deceived. the indepen ...

298 philip l. tite establishes the potential threat prompting the letter, the body closing antithetically stresses the ideal con ...

dusting off a pseudo-historical letter 299 eschatological or soteriological quality authenticates this work (salutis vitae aeter ...

300 philip l. tite imitated.26 Ps.-Paul is the ideal model for the laodicean Christians, for, as he claims in v. 7, he embodies ...

dusting off a pseudo-historical letter 301 at vv. 4 and 5). Just as Ps.-Paul will attain eternal life and joy, so also will the ...

302 philip l. tite in recognizing the importance of eschatology in this letter, argues that laodiceans “sanitizes” Paul by prese ...

dusting off a pseudo-historical letter 303 In setting forth his case, the letter writer marshals an eschatological prom- ise of ...