The Pauline Canon

by Porter, Stanley E.

• ISBN13: 9781589834286
• ISBN10: 1589834283
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-15
• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature

Summary

The Pauline letters continue to provoke scholarly discussion. This volume includes papers that raise a variety of questions regarding the canon of the Pauline writings. Some of the essays are more narrowly focused in their intent, sometimes concentrating upon a single dimension related to the Pauline canon, and sometimes upon even a single letter. Others of the essays are more broadly conceived and deal with how one assesses or accounts for the process that resulted in the letters as a collection, rather than analyzing individual letters. There are also mediating positions that attempt to overcome the disjunction between authenticity and inauthenticity by exploring the complex notion of interpolation.

Author Biography

Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988) in Biblical Studies and Linguistics, the University of Sheffield, is President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario. He has published extensively in New Testament and related subjects, including The Paul of Acts (Mohr Siebeck) and The Concept of the Covenant in the Second Temple Period (Brill). He is the editor of Brill's Pauline Studies series.