The violent disassembly of Paul reassessed - theLAB

A new post is up on the Academic Blog (theLAB), and it's sure to generate some controversy. Benj Petroelje (PhD, Edinburgh), lands a few punches on the nose of the scholarly tendency to break apart Paul's letters chronologically, which tends to sway any resulting interpretations. Check it out:

https://academic.logos.com/the-violent-disassembly-of-paul-reassessed/

Happy reading,

The Editor

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DMB

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Benj should turn out to be a fine Biblical scholar.

Someone collects a few Lincoln epistles in 2205. Makes a book. Should be read as a book! Independent of Lincoln the man?

But the true mystery is whatever happened to all the letters of Paul. The guy loved to write. Timothy?? Clement of Rome? And you KNOW Ignatius didn't start writing, just for the lions in Rome. Polycarp?

Justin Gatlin

A new post is up on the Academic Blog (theLAB), and it's sure to generate some controversy. Benj Petroelje (PhD, Edinburgh), lands a few punches on the nose of the scholarly tendency to break apart Paul's letters chronologically, which tends to sway any resulting interpretations. Check it out:

https://academic.logos.com/the-violent-disassembly-of-paul-reassessed/

Happy reading,

The Editor

Since the epistles are basically arranged from longest to shortest, except when part of a set, how is interpreting them as a "collection" helpful at all? They were not arranged with that kind of a point in mind, but the churches of the early common era rapidly achieved consensus of what books were divinely inspired, and ordered them conveniently.

I agree with Denise. This is silly.